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Open Archaeology, 2021 The reconstruction of past mortuary rituals and practices increasingly incorporates analysis of the taphonomic history of the grave and buried body, using the framework provided by archaeothanatology.
Mickleburgh Hayley L. +2 more
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Emergence of corpse cremation during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the Southern Levant: A multidisciplinary study of a pyre-pit burial. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2020 Renewed excavations at the Neolithic site of Beisamoun (Upper Jordan Valley, Israel) has resulted in the discovery of the earliest occurrence of an intentional cremation in the Near East directly dated to 7031-6700 cal BC (Pre-Pottery Neolithic C, also ...
Bocquentin F +8 more
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Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de ParisThis paper examines the treatment of the dead in three Early Bronze Age cemeteries on the Greek mainland, in comparison with six contemporaneous cemeteries in the Cyclades.
Anastasia Chrysanthi Solomou
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Antropologia PortuguesaArchaeothanatology has helped immensely to better understand complex burial dynamics and funerary treatment. Recently, scholars have employed this approach in attempts to reconstruct possible shrouding of corpses prior to interment, which often degrade ...
Trent Trombley +2 more
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Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de ParisIn the study of funerary practices, grave goods have traditionally been considered the key form of evidence. This is no less true for the early Neolithic of central Europe, where material cultural evidence from graves has dominated discussions on all ...
Iseabail Wilks +6 more
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L’archéothanatologie en contexte préventif. Évolution des protocoles et des enjeux
Archéopages, 2022 Recent changes in the discipline that studies the ancient dead, today called “archaeothanatology”, have permitted great advances in terms of issues and goals. In the last twenty years, the discipline has broadened its fields of expertise and enhanced its
Bruno Bizot, Anne Richier
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Visual inventories and field note templates for contextualised recording of human remains
Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, 2021 This short note is a presentation of seven new visual inventory sheets and five new standardised field note sheets posted on open access. Compared to those currently used in France, our protocols have the advantage of being written in English, for those ...
Fanny Bocquentin, Marie Anton
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Epidemics and Wars: Comparative Archaeology and Anthropology of Ancient Greek Mass Burials [PDF]
Athens Journal of History, 2021 The high number of dead bodies to deal with in time of mortality crises (events marked by an unusually high number of dead in a limited amount of time) often leads to modifications in the traditional funerary practices of a society.
Reine-Marie Bérard, Dominique Castex
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Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 2020 The majority of ancient Maya funerary contexts, at least those reported by archaeology, are residential in nature. This cultural specificity, while it renders the excavation process more complex, establishes a link between the grave and the surrounding ...
Hemmamuthé Goudiaby +1 more
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Open Archaeology, 2022 This article presents the results of the archaeological, bioanthropological, and historical analysis of an atypical human bone deposit found at the medieval Islamic desert site of Khirbat al-Dusaq in southern present-day Jordan.
Hofstetter Tobias +2 more
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