Memory and its Demolition
Ancestors, Animals and Sacrifice at Umm el-Marra, Syria
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6044393 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Glenn M Schwartz (0000-0001-9103-8853, Johns Hopkins University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 495-522 |
| Publication date | 2013-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cambridge Archaeological Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0959-7743 • E-ISSN: 1474-0540 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0959774313000504 |
| OpenAlex | W2016451025 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
At Umm el-Marra in western Syria, a sequence of Bronze Age ritual installations facilitates the investigation of how Syrian elites employed memory, ancestor veneration, and animal (and perhaps human) sacrifice to reinforce their position, and how others used countermemory to contest it. Relevant data derive from an Early Bronze Age complex of elite tombs and animal interments and a Middle Bronze Age monumental platform and shaft containing animal and human bodies deposited ritually. Analysis of the spatial landscape, with patterns of access or inaccessibility, facilitates additional insights, as does the consideration of the intentionality or lack of it in ancient references to the past
Ancestor · Ancient history · Archaeology · Bronze · Bronze Age · Ethnology · Geography · Human sacrifice · Sacrifice · Veneration · Zooarchaeology · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Ancient Near East History · Archaeology and Historical Studies · History
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| Citations per year | 1.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |