Kimberly Williams to lead discussion on the dead
Written by Jessica Smith, Posted in Around Campus, Living
Kimberly Williams will lead her presentation, “Landscapes of Death in Ancient Arabia,” on Thursday afternoon from 12:30 to 1:50 p.m. in the Center for Humanities on the tenth floor of Gladfelter Hall. Williams believes the location and details of how people choose to dispose of their dead reflects relationships between the living and deceased in a community.
Williams will discuss the change from the burial cairns of the Oman Peninsula in the Bronze Age to the low, central tombs in the middle of the third millennium B.C. Williams holds that this shift effectively destroyed any individual identity that was previously celebrated. Using GIS modeling to visualize the mortuary landscapes and understand landform use, Williams will model how ancient people transformed physical landscape into a landscape of death. This event is free and open to all.
