Around 2500 B.C., eminent persons of Ur in Mesopotamia were ceremoniously buried with members of their householf. Upon examining the socio-cultural context of this practice, we are led to believe that the strict notion of human sacrifices cannot be applied here. However, it also allows us to understand that such practices were structural and were certainly more widespread than previously believed. Evidence points to such practices as early as the 4th millenium, during the Uruk period, or even earlier during the Obeid period. Its disappearance which we suggest took place in the last centuries of the 3th millenium (during the Sargonides reign), might be linked to the socio-cultural evolution which took place during this period.Vers 2500 avant...
International audienceParadoxically, while the fragmentation, desecration or abandonment of remains ...
International audienceParadoxically, while the fragmentation, desecration or abandonment of remains ...
SAA X 352 is a letter adressed to the king of Assyria, Esarhaddon (dated from 671 B. C. E). This doc...
The handling of bodies in Predynastic cemeteries were described by Fl. Petrie during the discovery o...
Human sacrifice has long been associated with the rise of hierarchical centralised societies. Recent...
From 1975 to 1999 about ten cemeteries in Central Sudan and in Nubia were studied. More than a thous...
Whether aristocratie, royal or imperial, the late tombs of the Meroitic Empire are often collective....
The existence of human sacrifice in Pharaonic civilization has been a subject of debate since the en...
Human sacrifice has long been associated with the rise of hierarchical centralised societies. Recent...
In Mesopotamia, cremation is not very frequently attested. Nowadays, new excavations have provided s...
International audienceThe practice of sacrifice (not confined to animal offerings) was the subject o...
International audienceThe practice of sacrifice (not confined to animal offerings) was the subject o...
WOS: 000437144800018Human sacrifice has long been associated with the rise of hierarchical centralis...
The practice of sacrifice (not confined to animal offerings) was the subject of crosscultural compar...
International audienceParadoxically, while the fragmentation, desecration or abandonment of remains ...
International audienceParadoxically, while the fragmentation, desecration or abandonment of remains ...
International audienceParadoxically, while the fragmentation, desecration or abandonment of remains ...
SAA X 352 is a letter adressed to the king of Assyria, Esarhaddon (dated from 671 B. C. E). This doc...
The handling of bodies in Predynastic cemeteries were described by Fl. Petrie during the discovery o...
Human sacrifice has long been associated with the rise of hierarchical centralised societies. Recent...
From 1975 to 1999 about ten cemeteries in Central Sudan and in Nubia were studied. More than a thous...
Whether aristocratie, royal or imperial, the late tombs of the Meroitic Empire are often collective....
The existence of human sacrifice in Pharaonic civilization has been a subject of debate since the en...
Human sacrifice has long been associated with the rise of hierarchical centralised societies. Recent...
In Mesopotamia, cremation is not very frequently attested. Nowadays, new excavations have provided s...
International audienceThe practice of sacrifice (not confined to animal offerings) was the subject o...
International audienceThe practice of sacrifice (not confined to animal offerings) was the subject o...
WOS: 000437144800018Human sacrifice has long been associated with the rise of hierarchical centralis...
The practice of sacrifice (not confined to animal offerings) was the subject of crosscultural compar...
International audienceParadoxically, while the fragmentation, desecration or abandonment of remains ...
International audienceParadoxically, while the fragmentation, desecration or abandonment of remains ...
International audienceParadoxically, while the fragmentation, desecration or abandonment of remains ...
SAA X 352 is a letter adressed to the king of Assyria, Esarhaddon (dated from 671 B. C. E). This doc...