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Skull Collection Modification and Decoration
Michelle Bonogofsky
This volume is based on papers submitted to the session "Skull Collection, Modification and Decoration" organized for the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, held at University College Cork in Cork, Ireland, September 5–11, 2005. The intent of the volume is to bring together and make available to a wider audience a body of information on skull collection, modification and decoration that spans the Early Neolithic to the twentieth century. The papers are grouped by geographic region – Europe, Middle East, Eurasia, Oceania, New World.
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Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright
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Table of Contents
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Participants
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Preface
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Inside Kurtz's Compound: Headhunting and the Human Body in Prehistoric Europe
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Complexity in Context: Plain, Painted and Modeled Skulls from the Neolithic Middle East
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Getting Ahead: Exploring Meanings of Skulls in the Neolithic Near East
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Plastered Skulls of the Catacomb Culture in the Northern Pontic Region
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Decoration of Skulls: Funerary Rituals of hte Yamnaya and Catacomb Cultures in the Eurasian Bronze Age
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The Yenisei Mummies with Modeled Skulls and Masks from Siberia
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The Taphonomy of Cranial Modification in Papua New Guinea: Implications for the Archaeology of Morturary Ritual
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Moche Skulls in Cross-Cultural Perspective
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"Trophy" Heads in Prehistoric Peru: Wari Imperial Influence on Nasca Head-Taking Practices
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Skulls Collected for Scalping in the Gran Chaco
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Postmortem Skeletal Modifications of the Pre-Columbian North American Mid-Continent
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Abstracts
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Index
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Published: 2006
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781841719719 (paperback)
- 9781407329956 (ebook)
BAR Number: S1539
- Levant / Near East
- Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific
- Central and South America and the Caribbean
- Archaeozoology / Bioarchaeology / Osteoarchaeology
- Neolithic / Chalcolithic
- North America
- Death / Burial / Cemeteries / Tombs
- Ritual / Religion / Temples
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Bronze Age and Iron Age
- Multiperiod
- Western Europe and Britain
- Ethnoarchaeology / Anthropology