Death and Burial in Arabia and Beyond

Download or read book Death and Burial in Arabia and Beyond written by Lloyd R. Weeks and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represents the proceedings of the conference entitled "Death, Burial and the transition to the Afterlife in Arabia and Adjacent Regions" that was held at the British Museum from November 27th to 29th, 2008. The conference promoted a broad consideration of the cultural traditions related to death and burial across the Arabian Peninsula, from prehistory to modern times, and was the first to attempt a cross-disciplinary study of burial archaeology in Arabia. The major themes of the conference included: specific local/regional burial traditions of ancient Arabia and adjacent regions, implications of burial data for aspects of contemporaneous living societies, beliefs surrounding death and the transition to the afterlife, landscapes of death and burial, burial and pilgramage, and recent and contemporary ideas and practices relating to death and burial.