Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Archaeology and Sacrifice Glenn M. Schwartz

On Cakti-Filled Bodies and Divinities: An Ethnographic Perspective on Animal Sacrifice and Ritual in Contemporary South India, with an Introduction by Anne Porter

Gillian Goslinga

Sociopolitical Implications of Neolithic Foundation Deposits and the Possibility of Child Sacrifice: A Case Study at Çatalhöyük, Turkey Sharon Moses

Hunting Sacrifice at Neolithic Çatalhöyük Nerissa Russell

On Human and Animal Sacrifice in the Late Neolithic at Domuztepe Elizabeth Carter

Bludgeoned, Burned, and Beautified: Reevaluating Mortuary Practices in the Royal Cemetery of Ur Aubrey Baadsgaard, Janet Monge, and Richard L. Zettler

Restoring Order: Death, Display, and Authority Jill A. Weber

Mortal Mirrors: Creating Kin through Human Sacrifice in Third Millennium Syro-Mesopotamia Anne M. Porter

Scripts of Animal Sacrifice in Levantine Culture-History Brian Hesse, Paula Wapnish, and Jonathan Greer

Human and Animal Sacrifice at Galatian Gordion: The Uses of Ritual in a Multiethnic Community Mary M. Voigt

Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East: Offering and Ritual Killing Beate Pongratz-Leisten

On Sacrifice: An Archaeology of Shang Sacrifice Roderick Campbell

Index of Authors