{"id":335,"date":"2013-10-29T17:30:09","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T17:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/?p=335"},"modified":"2013-10-21T16:34:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T16:34:22","slug":"amarna-warrior-burial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/major-theme\/the-first-civilisations\/amarna-warrior-burial\/","title":{"rendered":"Amarna Warrior Burial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Individual 59 from the South Tombs Cemetery, Tell al-Amarna, Egypt. Image by Amarnah Project. Rights reserved.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Individual 59 from the South Tombs Cemetery, Tell al-Amarna, Egypt
\nHaving looked at the political role, social position and living conditions of the Amarna royals, our next \u2018object\u2019 will take us lower down the social spectrum.<\/p>\n

On the edge of the desert at Tell al-Amarna lies a cemetery of shallow burials scooped into the sand, where Amarna\u2019s poorer people were buried in often unmarked graves, with only a few, if any, objects.<\/p>\n

One individual buried here, an adult male who died in his later 30s, gives us information about the hard and often violent lives of some of Amarna\u2019s population, and hints at the political and military instability of Amarna-period Egypt.<\/p>\n

Reading<\/h2>\n

For images of the South Tombs Cemetery excavations see:
\nhttp:\/\/www.amarnaproject.com\/pages\/recent_projects\/excavation\/south_tombs_cemetery\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Kemp, B.J., Stevens, A., Dabbs, G.R., Zabecki, M. &Rose, J. C. 2013. Life, death and beyond in Akhenaten’s Egypt: Excavating the South Tombs Cemetery at Amarna, Antiquity<\/em> 87 (335): 64-78<\/p>\n

Kemp, B.J. 2012. The City of Akhenaten and Nefertiti: Amarna and its People<\/em>. London: Thames and Hudson,<\/p>\n

Dabbs, G. R. &Schaffer, W. C. 2008. \u2018Akhenaten\u2019s Warrior? An Assessment of Traumatic Injury at the South Tombs Cemetery\u2019, Paleopathology Newsletter<\/em> 142: 20-31 [Blackboard Week 5 \u2013 pdf]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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