Human sacrifice, ancient Near East

Human sacrifice is a form of ritual killing in which the slayer attempts to engender change at the suprahuman level inhabited by supernatural beings, non‐human forces, and deceased humans though the act of slaughter.

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• Radical 'royals'? Burial practices at Başur Höyük and the emergence of early states in Mesopotamia

  Open Access•B R Hassett, Brenna Hassett et al.•Antiquity•2018

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• Death and Nether World According to the Sumerian Literary Texts

  Samuel Noah Kramer•Iraq•1960

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• The Sacrifice of Isaac

  Ed Noort, Tigchelaar Tigchelaar•The Sacrifice of Isaac•2002

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• The First Season of Excavation at Dothan

  Joseph P Free•Bulletin of the American Schools…•1953

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• Blood Residue Analysis at Cayonu Tepesi, Turkey

  Thomas H Loy, Thomas Loy et al.•Journal of Field Archaeology•1989

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• A Third-Millennium B.C. Elite Mortuary Complex at Umm El-Marra, Syria

  Glenn M Schwartz, Hans H Curvers et al.•American Journal of Archaeology•2006

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• A Third-Millennium B.C. Elite Tomb and Other New Evidence from Tell Umm el-Marra, Syria

  Glenn M Schwartz, Hans H Curvers et al.•American Journal of Archaeology•2003

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• Debating the Legitimacy of Human Sacrifice in Modern Hinduism and Biblical Tradition

  Jason R Tatlock•Journal of global south studies•2018

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• New Symbols of a New Power in a "Royal" Tomb from 3 000 BC Arslantepe, Malatya (Turkey)

  Marcella Frangipane, Gian Maria Di Nocera et al.•Paléorient•2001

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• Ancient near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament

  W F Albright, James B Pritchard•Journal of the American Oriental…•1951

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• Whose Bones are those? Preliminary Comparative Analysis of Fragmented Human and Animal Bones in the "Death Pit" at Domuztepe, a Late Neolithic Settlement in Southeastern Turkey

  Open Access•Sarah Whitcher Kansa, Suellen C Gauld et al.•Anthropozoologica•2009

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• Sacred Violence

  Kerry Muhlestein•Near Eastern Archaeology•2015

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