Table of Contents

The visibility of prehistoric burials in the Southern Levant - how rare are the Upper Palaeolithic/Early Epipalaeolithic graves?, Dani Nadel; rethinking social stratification in the Natufian culture, Anna Belfer-Cohen; Natufian mortuary practices at Mallaha (Eynan), Upper Jordan valley, Brian Boyd; new data on burials from the pottery Neolithic in Israel, Avi Gopher and Estelle Orrelle; death for the living in the late Neolithic in north Mesopotamia, Stuart Campbell; model objects as predynastic Egyptian grave goods, Salley Swain; attitudes to death - cats in ancient Egypt, Joyce M. Filer; oral pathology in Nile Valley populations, Francis Thornton; deformed skulls at Tell Arpachiyah, Theya Molleson and Stuart Campbell; dentition in Chalcolithic Cyprus, Dorothy A. Lunt; death in ancient Cyprus, Lynn Bright; Dead Sea dolmens - death and the landscape, Kay Prag; the complex nomads - death and social stratification in EB IV, Evi Baxevani; pots, people and death in Northern Syria and Southern Anatolia, Elizabeth Carter and Andrea Parker; MBA mortuary practices at Tel Dan, David Ilan; BA warrior burials, Graham Philip; Agean influence in LBA funerary practices, Garth Gilmour; rituel mortuaire a Ras Shamra, Jean-Francois Salles; Symmers's fibrosis of the liver in the 18th dynasty?, Walter Y. Loebl; death in West Semitic texts, John F. Healey; afterlife in Mesopotamia and Greece, Charles Penglase; typology of Dilmun burial mounds, Abdulaziz Soweilah; Iron Age burial practices in Cyprus, Louise Steel; Urartian funerary customs, Charles Burney; neo-Babylonian burials revisited, Heather Baker; social stratification in Lycian tombs, Antony G. Keen; gold face-masks in the near East, John Curtis; cannabis as a medication, Joe Zias; deathly links between China and Islam?, Madeleine Sarley; death and burial in the Late Islamic Near East, St John Simpson.

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