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| Krum Bacvarov, Ph.D. Institute of Archaeology with Museum Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 2 Saborna St., BG-1000 Sofia Tel./Fax: (00359 2) 988 24 05 E-mail: krum_bacvarov@sofianet.net |
| Copyright © 2004-2005 International Institute of Anthropology Copyright © 2004-2005 Krum Bacvarov, Ph.D. |
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| Sofia-Slatina. A formal inhumation, Early Neolithic |
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| Salt Lake City. April 4, 2005. Lecture at the Salt Lake Community College. Fine Art and Lectures' Grant. Death in the Neolithic: Reconstructing Rituals and Meanings in the Balkans and West Anatolia Krum Bacvarov Abstract Almost as diverse in their details as they are in number, the intramural burials of early farmers in the Balkans and West Anatolia need special reconstructions, as ritual activities, to further our understanding of their religio-mythological semantics and social meanings. For this end, the consideration of archaeological evidence - results of structural, correlative and comparative analyses - is taken as a first prerequisite step to the next level of reconstructive interpretations. General types of burials are defined in an effort, among anything else, to identify the distribution, diachronic development and possible origin of the different groups of burial practices. A body of historical, ethnographic and linguistic evidence is used in a broad spatial context for the comprehensive consideration of all known published and unpublished information about intramural Neolithic burials in the study area. |