Priscilla Keswani received her P.

Priscilla Keswani received her P. in anthropology from the University of Michigan in 1989 and has taught at Washington State University and the Borough of Manhattan Community College. She has participated in archaeological field projects in Cyprus for many years and published a number of scholarly papers on Bronze Age burial practices, political organization, exchange systems, and pottery.

Priscilla Keswani’s comprehensive survey of Cypriot Bronze Age mortuary practices is a welcome addition to the literature on the archaeology of the island.

Keswani proposes that during the Early-Middle Bronze periods, the growing elaboration of mortuary festivities and their crucial importance in negotiating status hierarchies contributed to the intensification of Cypriot copper production and the expansion of interregional exchange relations. Antiquity, Volume:79 (Sept 2005), pp 705-707 'Priscilla Keswani's comprehensive survey of Cypriot Bronze Age mortuary practices is a welcome addition to th. . Antiquity, Volume:79 (Sept 2005), pp 705-707 'Priscilla Keswani's comprehensive survey of Cypriot Bronze Age mortuary practices is a welcome addition to the literature on the archaeology of the island.

by Priscilla Keswani.

London and Oakville, Conn. Equinox Publishing, 2004. Pp. xiii + 257 + 18 figs. Published: 1 July 2008. by University of Chicago Press. in Journal of Near Eastern Studies.

From the particular case of Bronze Age Cyprus we may then gain insights and knowledge on the relationship between mortuary ritual and social life in general.

Pp. xii + 257, charts 11, tables 38, drawings 5, maps 2. Equinox, London 2004. ISBN 1-904768-03-2 (cloth). From the particular case of Bronze Age Cyprus we may then gain insights and knowledge on the relationship between mortuary ritual and social life in general. One of the major and fundamental archaeological obstacles is, however, to distinguish mortuary rituals in collective tombs-to differentiate the remains of ritual behavior from primary burials and the so-called post-depositional ry burials, looting, or natural disarrangements caused by flooding or erosion.

Mortuary Ritual and Society in Bronze Age Cyprus. By Priscilla Keswani. London and Oakville, Conn. John G. Younger, "Priscilla Keswani, Mortuary Ritual and Society in Bronze Age Cyprus," Journal of Near Eastern Studies 67, no. 3 (July 2008): 191-192.

The mortuary features of ancient Cyprus were discovered through tomb excavations . Style and Society in Ceramic Neolithic Cyprus. Keswani, Priscilla Schuster. Death, Prestige, and Copper in Bronze Age Cyprus

The mortuary features of ancient Cyprus were discovered through tomb excavations and subsequent archaeological findings. The main forms of tombs were pit and chamber tombs. Levant, vol. 33, no. 1, 2001, pp. 65-80. Archaeology in Cyprus, 1959-61. Archaeological Reports, no. 8, 1961, pp. 32–46. Death, Prestige, and Copper in Bronze Age Cyprus. American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 109, no. 3, 2005, pp. 341–401.

Priscilla Keswani Mortuary ritual and social hierarchy in Bronze Age Cyprus /.

This paper examines the evidence for developments in social complexity accompanying the urbanization process at the Late Bronze Age site of Enkomi in Cyprus View. Mortuary ritual and social hierarchy in Bronze Age Cyprus /. Article.