The Early Bronze Age I Tombs and Burials of Bâb Edh-Dhrâ', Jordan

by Ortner, Donald J.; Frohlich, Bruno; Bentley, Gillian R.; Froment, Alain; Garofalo, Evan; Meier, Liese; Perry, Victoria J.; Schaub, R Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780759110755
• ISBN10: 0759110751
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-31
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

This work is the result of decades of research on the Early Bronze Age I skeletal material from the archaeological site of B'b Edh-Dhr'' in Jordan. B'b Edh-Dhr'' is home to one of the Near East's largest and most carefully documented collections of human skeletal material, which is one of the few sources of information about the inhabitants of this pre-biblical world in the late-fourth and third millennia B.C. This definitive study by physical anthropologists will be consulted for decades by archaeologists and anthropologists working in the Levant, Egypt and Mesopotamia, as well as anyone studying ancient Near Eastern migration patterns, skeletal changes, and incidences of diseases.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
The Ecological and Social Context of the EB I People	p. 7
Methods in the Recovery of and Research on the EB I People	p. 13
Cultural Artifacts of the EB I Tombs	p. 25
The Funerary Tradition of the EB I People	p. 45
The Tombs and Burials of the EB I People: Shaft Tombs Excavated in 1977	p. 51
The EB IB Charnel House (G1): Excavated in 1977	p. 123
The Tombs and Burials of the EB I People: Tombs Excavated in 1979	p. 147
The Tombs and Burials of the EB I People: Tombs Excavated in 1981	p. 183
The Osteology of the EB IA People	p. 229
The Paleodemography of the EB IA People	p. 251
The Paleopathology of the EB IA and EB IB People	p. 263
Dental Analyses of the Bab edh-Dhra' Human Remains	p. 281
Summary of Findings and Conclusions Regarding the EB I People of Bab edh-Dhra', Jordan	p. 297
References	p. 309
Index	p. 319
About the Authors	p. 325
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