Reading Qs 14

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Glenn Schwartz, “Memory and its Demolition: Ancestors, Animals and Sacrifice at Umm el-Marra” – pages 495-515

  1. Where is Umm el-Marra and what time period did Schwartz and his team excavate?
  2. What is social memory? (495-496)
  3. What kinds of tombs and grave goods do we see in the Early Bronze elite burial area? What difference does gender seem to make?
  4. What kinds of animals were most commonly buried with them, and why does Schwartz suggest that this was done? (498-499)
  5. What kinds of young creatures are found buried in the tomb areas? (500-501)
  6. He thinks that the people of the Phase 4 era were hostile to the earlier era. What evidence does he give for this? (505)
  7. What makes us think that these burials were elite?
  8. What does Schwartz think the presence and structure of these tombs would mean for the city’s society? Do you think he’s right? Are there other options for how to interpret this?
  9. What is countermemory? How may later rulers of the city have been trying to create a countermemory? (507)
  10. What kinds of people and animals were buried in the late Middle Bronze shaft? (510-511) How did these people die?
  11. Why may they have been buried like this? (512-513)
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