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PREHISTORIC & PROTOHISTORIC CYPRUS Phần 3

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Tham khảo tài liệu 'prehistoric & protohistoric cyprus phần 3', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 84 Island Archaeology and History PreBA Cyprus differentiation linked to other fashions technology eating and drinking habits of foreign inspiration or derivation Peltenburg et al. 1998 252 257 . Above all it seems clear that the special treatment accorded to children during the Middle Chalcolithic inclusion of picrolite pendants and other exotica in burials secondary treatment of infant and children s bones libation-hole graves for infants was no longer provided Peltenburg et al. 1998 85 91 Niklasson 1991 186-7 Baxivani 1997 Lorentz 2002 . Perhaps children had lost their special position as they became involved increasingly in the labour efforts associated with the secondary productes revolution. Indeed differently sexed and aged individuals family groups including children were now being interred together and the practice of depositing some remarkable goods figurines and pendants with these burials had been discontinued. Such factors suggest a levelling off of the Middle Chalcolithic trajectory toward social differentiation cf. Bolger 2003 158 . Even if these burial practices so apparent in southwest Cyprus had wider currency during the Late Chalcolithic PreBA 1 for which there is no evidence soon they were to change once again. During subsequent phases of the PreBA the deceased members of society began to be placed in large communal cemeteries clearly demarcated from their associated settlements. Davies 1997 22 sees these burial practices as broadly homogeneous and indicating only a low level of socio-economic differentiation. Frankel 2002 174 likewise finds no evidence for symbols of power or prestige in PreBA cemeteries beyond concentrations of metalwork. Similarly Steel 2004 139-42 discusses at some length the elaboration in mortuary rituals including the ceremonial consumption of exotic alcoholic beverages and the associated sacrifices of cattle and sheep the increasing quantity diversity and quality of grave goods including metal wealth and the changing .