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CURRENT ARCHAEOLOGY ISSUE 63 DEATH AND BEYOND
We are opening a cocoon that envelops our horizons with our thematic issues, each of which is connected to the other and related to each other. All these issues, which deal with subjects such as slavery, violence, war, migration, death, religion and ritual, guide us to understand humanity's short but difficult past amidst the chaos and hustle of daily life. Perhaps the most important issue in this difficult past is the subject of man's coping with death.
Death is not a single phenomenon; it is a very complex situation that is intertwined with religion, status, gender, migration, violence, war and dozens of other phenomena. Every living thing dies. Of course, humans must have perceived this by observing both themselves and other living things in nature over a period of approximately 2 million years. Although we do not have many examples of hunter-gatherer graves, special burials such as Şanidar Cave show us that humans began to cope with death very early. Death is not only a physical annihilation, but also a phenomenon that includes the bonds established with the society you live in, the relationships developed and the memories experienced. Embracing death, in other words, comprehending the annihilation brought by death; adds a fictional dimension to the processes of individuals and societies coping with death over time. Beliefs and rituals wrapped in emotion, memory and love develop around the dead, especially the domestic burials we see in the Early Neolithic, the formalities recreated with the skull and body of the dead also determine the path of the following ages. As if death were an endless experiment, it constantly changes from society to society, from culture to culture. Sometimes the dead are cut into pieces, sometimes they are buried with belongings for the afterlife, sometimes they are burned, and sometimes they are sent off to eternity with monumental and magnificent graves. And of course, status leads to the enrichment and immortality of death. In this issue, where we aim to enable people to face their lives, even if only a little, we tell you the story of the unique Anatolian geography and its inhabitants coping with death.
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