id
	11392
Url
	https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/11392
Resource template
	Conference Paper
Resource class
	fabio:ConferencePaper
Title
	Graves, distribution and social memory: towards a new definition of funerary landscapein Oman
Creator
	Laurenza, Sabatino
	Bianchi, Marco
	Di Michele, Antonio
Publisher
	EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Date
	2020
Language
	eng
Abstract
	From 2014 Italian team, directed by Sabatino Laurenza, worked in the Sultanate of Oman for rescue archaeological excavations for roads construction. The excavations on the Batinah Expressway alignment in Sohar area touched three graveyards with different typologies of graves and with materials of different periods (from Bronze age to Sasanian and early Islamic). The results pushed us to apply a new approach to the “funerary landscape” study of the region. In this paper we present the “funerary landscape” as a specific type of archaeological landscape, focusing on a “mapscape” of the funerary sites and a detailed account of graves typologies and funerary finds (burialscape) and the relations between burials, disposal of the graves in the environment (funeraryscape) and the social memory of the group participating in the remembrance of the burial, through a series of standardized uses (i.e. graves organized in large groups over wide area, the repeated disposal of the dead in the same place, etc.). Those and other aspects let the area to become a place of remembrance of persons in a community’s social memory, reflecting the subscription of several communities to a similar set of guiding principles for creating and maintaining social memory.
Spatial Coverage
	Trieste
Cited by
	11072
Editor
	Coppini, Costanza
	Simi, Francesca
Isbn
	978-88-5511-048-8
Pages
	343-357
Uri
	http://hdl.handle.net/10077/30243
Homepage
	https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/WPAAQ3NY/item-list

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