With support from the Stahl Endowment Fund, I conducted dissertation research during summer 2015 on archaeological collections and archives from the site of Tel Megiddo, Israel. These materials comprise the main dataset for my dissertation, entitled “Transformations in Death: Funerary Practices and Personhood in the Bronze Age Levant”. Tel Megiddo, which is this project’s principal research site, was a major Bronze Age urban settlement with intramural burials that are representative of mortuary treatments that were widely practiced in the region: infant jar burials; single, primary pit inhumations; and multiple-interments of primary and secondary inhumations in pits and masonry-constructed chamber tombs. The burial assemblages examined in summer 2015 were excavated by Megiddo Expedition team members over three field seasons between 2010 and 2014 and are housed at Tel Aviv University’s Institute of Archaeology
Melissa S.
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2014
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