ABSTRACT
Two intramural burials from Late Bronze I Ashkelon are presented and analyzed using a cognitive interpretive approach. Further components of the mortuary rituals associated with each internment, beyond the burial itself, are determined through stratigraphic analysis aided by interpretive insights from ethnohistoric and ethnographic sources. It is argued that using complementary classes of archaeological, textual, pictorial, and ethnographic data expands B. Bartel’s schema of burial archaeology and allows for a fuller understanding of the cultural practices and beliefs that accompanied death and burial in the southern Levant.
