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A BIAA Online Lecture by Brenna Hassett (Institute of Archaeology, UCL)
Physical anthropology at the site of Başur Höyük near modern-day Siirt in the Upper Tigris region allows fascinating insights into the Mesopotamian sphere of influence at the crux of the transition to the 3rd millennium BCE. In the interregnum between waves of southern Mesopotamian influence, the rich retainer burials and mass death pit of the Early Bronze Age cemetery at Başur Höyük provide impressive testimony to the ways in which the dead can be used to communicate new ideas of social connection – and disconnection.
Find out more on our website: biaa.ac.uk/event/online-lecture-bodies-bronze-and-basur-what-the-dead-have-to-say-about-it
A BIAA Online Lecture by Brenna Hassett (Institute of Archaeology, UCL)
Physical anthropology at the site of Başur Höyük near modern-day Siirt in the Upper Tigris region allows fascinating insights into the Mesopotamian sphere of influence at the crux of the transition to the 3rd millennium BCE. In the interregnum between waves of southern Mesopotamian influence, the rich retainer burials and mass death pit of the Early Bronze Age cemetery at Başur Höyük provide impressive testimony to the ways in which the dead can be used to communicate new ideas of social connection – and disconnection.
Find out more on our website: biaa.ac.uk/event/online-lecture-bodies-bronze-and-basur-what-the-dead-have-to-say-about-it
