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Villagers of the Maros

A Portrait of an Early Bronze Age Society

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  • © 1996

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Authors:
  1. John M. O’Shea

    1. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

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Part of the book series: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology (IDCA)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction and Background

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • John M. O’Shea
      Pages 3-5

    3. The Archaeological Study of Funerary Practices

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      Pages 7-25

    4. An Archaeological Overview of the Maros Group

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      Pages 27-52

  3. Archaeological Analysis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53
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    2. The Cemeteries of the Maros Group

      • John M. O’Shea
      Pages 55-80

    3. Coding and Classification of Grave Inclusions

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      Pages 81-138

    4. Maros Funerary Differentiation

      • John M. O’Shea
      Pages 139-186

    5. Maros Funerary Differentiation

      • John M. O’Shea
      Pages 187-256

  4. Social Analysis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 257-257
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    2. Mortuary Symbolism and Social Differentiation at Mokrin

      • John M. O’Shea
      Pages 259-312

    3. Symbolism and Differentiation across the Maros Villages

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      Pages 313-349

    4. The Maros Group and the Early Bronze Age in the Eastern Carpathian Basin

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      Pages 351-369

  5. Conclusions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 371-371
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    2. Conclusions

      • John M. O’Shea
      Pages 373-377

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 379-400
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About this book

John M. O'Shea explores this question by employing modern archaeological theory and analysis as well as mortuary theory to build a model of an Early Bronze Age society in the eastern Carpathian Basin. He focuses on the Maros communities and utilizes the densely encoded social information from their cemeteries to draw a picture of the Maros' social systems.

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`I imagine that every archaeologist...has grown dissatisfied with sherds, rocks, and bones, and wished to actually see the society of long ago that produced the archaeological assemblages....Yet the question that must be posed is `Can such modeling or reconstruction be done with any degree of rigor?'
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Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

    John M. O’Shea

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Villagers of the Maros

  • Book Subtitle: A Portrait of an Early Bronze Age Society

  • Authors: John M. O’Shea

  • Series Title: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0304-4

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1996

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-45322-9Published: 30 September 1996

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-0306-8Published: 19 June 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-0304-4Published: 11 November 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1568-2722

  • Series E-ISSN: 2730-6984

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 400

  • Topics: Archaeology

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