Skull Collection Modification and Decoration 9781841719719, 9781407329956
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Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Table of Contents
Participants
Preface
Inside Kurtz's Compound: Headhunting and the Human Body in Prehistoric Europe
Complexity in Context: Plain, Painted and Modeled Skulls from the Neolithic Middle East
Getting Ahead: Exploring Meanings of Skulls in the Neolithic Near East
Plastered Skulls of the Catacomb Culture in the Northern Pontic Region
Decoration of Skulls: Funerary Rituals of hte Yamnaya and Catacomb Cultures in the Eurasian Bronze Age
The Yenisei Mummies with Modeled Skulls and Masks from Siberia
The Taphonomy of Cranial Modification in Papua New Guinea: Implications for the Archaeology of Morturary Ritual
Moche Skulls in Cross-Cultural Perspective
"Trophy" Heads in Prehistoric Peru: Wari Imperial Influence on Nasca Head-Taking Practices
Skulls Collected for Scalping in the Gran Chaco
Postmortem Skeletal Modifications of the Pre-Columbian North American Mid-Continent
Abstracts
Index
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BAR S1539 2006 BONOGOFSKY (Ed)
Skull Collection, Modification and Decoration Edited by
Michelle Bonogofsky SKULL COLLECTION, MODIFICATION AND DECORATION
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BAR International Series 1539 2006
Skull Collection, Modification and Decoration Edited by
Michelle Bonogofsky
BAR International Series 1539 2006
Published in 2016 by BAR Publishing, Oxford BAR International Series 1539 Skull Collection, Modification and Decoration © The editors and contributors severally and the Publisher 2006 The authors' moral rights under the 1988 UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act are hereby expressly asserted. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be copied, reproduced, stored, sold, distributed, scanned, saved in any form of digital format or transmitted in any form digitally, without the written permission of the Publisher.
ISBN 9781841719719 paperback ISBN 9781407329956 e-format DOI https://doi.org/10.30861/9781841719719 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library BAR Publishing is the trading name of British Archaeological Reports (Oxford) Ltd. British Archaeological Reports was first incorporated in 1974 to publish the BAR Series, International and British. In 1992 Hadrian Books Ltd became part of the BAR group. This volume was originally published by Archaeopress in conjunction with British Archaeological Reports (Oxford) Ltd / Hadrian Books Ltd, the Series principal publisher, in 2006. This present volume is published by BAR Publishing, 2016.
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List of Participants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii EUROPE Inside Kurtz’s Compound: Headhunting and the Human Body in Prehistoric Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Ian Armit MIDDLE EAST Complexity in Context: Plain, Painted and Modeled Skulls from the Neolithic Middle East . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Michelle Bonogofsky Getting Ahead: Exploring Meanings of Skulls in the Neolithic Near East . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Karina Croucher EURASIA Plastered Skulls of the Catacomb Culture in the Northern Pontic Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Elke Kaiser Decoration of Skulls: )XQHUDU\5LWXDOVRIWKH