Sacred killing :  the archaeology of sacrifice in the ancient Near East / 
edited by Anne M. Porter and Glenn M. Schwartz. 
 - 1 online resource (vii, 328 pages) :  illustrations, maps. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Archaeology and Sacrifice / Glenn M. Schwartz -- On Cakti-Filled Bodies and Divinities : an Ethnographic Perspective on Animal Sacrifice and Ritual in Contemporary South India, with an Introduction by Anne Porter / Gillian Goslinga -- Sociopolitical Implications of Neolithic Foundation Deposits and the Possibility of Child Sacrifice : a Case Study at Catalhoeyuek, Turkey / Sharon Moses -- Hunting Sacrifice at Neolithic Catalhoeyuek / Nerissa Russell -- On Human and Animal Sacrifice in the Late Neolithic at Domuztepe / Elizabeth Carter -- Bludgeoned, Burned, and Beautified : Reevaluating Mortuary Practices in the Royal Cemetery of Ur / Aubrey Baadsgaard, Janet Monge, and Richard L. Zettler -- Restoring Order : Death, Display, and Authority / Jill A. Weber -- Mortal Mirrors : Creating Kin through Human Sacrifice in Third Millennium Syro-Mesopotamia / Anne M. Porter -- Scripts of Animal Sacrifice in Levantine Culture-History / Brian Hesse, Paula Wapnish, and Jonathan Greer -- Human and Animal Sacrifice at Galatian Gordion : the Uses of Ritual in a Multi-ethnic Community / Mary M. Voigt -- Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East : Offering and Ritual Killing / Beate Pongratz-Leisten -- On Sacrifice : an Archaeology of Shang Sacrifice / Roderick Campbell. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1575066769 9781575066769 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social archaeology--Middle East.<br/>Sacrifice--History--Middle East--To 1500.<br/>Rites and ceremonies--History--Middle East--To 1500.<br/>Middle East--Antiquities.<br/>Middle East--Religious life and customs.<br/>Rites and ceremonies--History--To 1500.--Middle East<br/>Sacrifice--History--To 1500.--Middle East<br/>Social archaeology--Middle East.<br/>RELIGION--Reference.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Middle East--Antiquities.<br/>Middle East--Religious life and customs.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS56 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>203/.409394