ANTH 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Robert Mccormick Adams Jr., Manuel Gamio, Nahuatl
19 Dec 2017
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Mesopotamia (ur) part two cont"d & valley of mexico (teotihuacan) part one. Pollock, susan 1991 focus on very specifically. Stone, elizabeth 2005 overarching analysis of patterns of daily life. Excavations carried out at ur by leonard woolley and his assistant/wife in collaboration with the locals in 1922-1932. Research focuses on two neighboring monumental complexes. Royal cemetery and edge of temenos including t least 2,000 excavated burials with 16 royal tombs. Most intact royal tomb of queen puabi and 60 or so attendants that accompanied her in the afterlife. Gold headdress worn by her at death and reconstruction of this done by katharine. Meaning of burial interpreted by one scholar: offerings as theatres of cruelty state violence and intimidation. Dixon questions stratigraphic associations in reconstruction of excavations. Woolley had romanticized idea of servants who took poison to join beloved woman in the afterlife.
