Yasmina Wicks. Profiling Death. Neo-Elamite Mortuary Practices, Afterlife Beliefs, and Entanglements with Ancestors

Comprehensively researched and illustrated, this book stems from research carried out during the author’s doctoral dissertation “Alas, Short Is the Joy of Life!” Elamite Funerary Practice in the First Half of the First Millennium BCE, completed in 2017 at the University of Sydney, Australia. It is divided in four parts: Part 1 offers a background to the Elamite history and material culture of the first millennium BC; Part 2 focuses on the mortuary evidence systematically arranged along (i) ge

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