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Sacred Killing: The Archaeology of Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East

By Anne Porter (Editor), Glenn M. Schwarz (Editor)
Hardcover
$74.95
By Anne Porter (Editor), Glenn M. Schwarz (Editor)
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What is sacrifice? How can we identify it in the archaeological record? And what does it tell us about the societies that practice it? Sacred Killing: The Archaeology of Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East investigates these and other questions through the evidence for human and animal sacrifice in the Near East from the Neolithic to the Hellenistic periods. Drawing on sociocultural anthropology and history in addition to archaeology, the book also includes evidence from ancient China and a ...