Rituals, Collapse, and Radical Transformation in Archaic States - Paperback

by Joanne M. a. Murphy (Editor)

Rituals, Collapse, and Radical Transformation in Archaic States explores role of ritual in variety of archaic states and generates discussion on how decline in a state's ability to continue in its current form affected practices of ritual.

Author Biography

Joanne M. A. Murphy is an associate professor of Classical Studies at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. Her work focuses on the archaeology of ritual and death in Bronze Age Greece and has addressed these issues in both the early small-scale communities of Crete and the later states on the mainland.