Jar Burials in the Wider Eastern Mediterranean
This contribution constitutes an introduction to the seven papers gathered here under the title “Aegean Jar Burials and Their Wider Context (6th–2nd Millennium BC)”. It places the jar burials of the Aegean world in the broader context of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Near East from the Early Neo...
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| フォーマット: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| 言語: | Anglais |
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Bulletin de correspondance hellénique
2026
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| オンライン･アクセス: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| 要約: | This contribution constitutes an introduction to the seven papers gathered here under the title “Aegean Jar Burials and Their Wider Context (6th–2nd Millennium BC)”. It places the jar burials of the Aegean world in the broader context of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Near East from the Early Neolithic (Pottery Neolithic in the Near East) to the Late Bronze Age. It offers a brief overview of jar burials in Mesopotamia, the northern and southern Levant, Anatolia, the Caucasus and the Balkans during the periods under consideration, to allow comparison with Aegean jar/pithos burials and to highlight the great variety of forms and practices. The main issue is whether we are dealing with a koine of beliefs resulting from cross-cultural contacts and underlying the appearance of similar practices over five millennia in the Near East and South-Eastern Europe or whether these are endemic developments without any relation to each other. The discussion addresses more specifically the different chrono-cultural trajectories, the nature of ceramic containers, their interpretation and symbolism. |
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