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Archéologie funéraire à Thaenae (Thyna) : nouvelles données sur le « mausolée Fendri »

Antiquités Africaines, 2023
The ongoing renovation of the Sfax Archaeological Museum and the current research within the framework of the Thaenae field site provided an opportunity between 2020 and 2022 to re-examine the material discovered by M.
Solenn de Larminat, Salem Mokni, Nabil Belmabrouk, Samira Arous Ouslati, Paul Bailet, Michel Bonifay, Daniel Borschneck, Carine Cenzon-Salvayre, Loïc Damelet, Danièle Foy, Antony Hostein, Véronique Matterne, Rémi Rêve, Patrick Rossetti, Aurore Val, Oumaima Zaibi   +15 more
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A case of projectile trauma from the medieval Poulton Chapel, Cheshire, the United Kingdom

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 29, Issue 6, Page 1079-1090, November/December 2019., 2019
Abstract Excavations at the medieval cemetery of Poulton Chapel, Cheshire, have uncovered over 900 articulated human skeletal remains, with numbers predicted to reach as high as 1500 as excavations continue. The demographics of this archaeological site is typical of a medieval rural assemblage.
Sara M. Canavan, Carla L. Burrell, Michael M. Emery, Silvia Gonzalez   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

La démarche archéo-anthropologique dans la nécropole hellénistique de Plinthine

Archéopages, 2010
In the region of Lake Mariut, to the west of Alexandria, stands the town of Plinthine. Definitely abandoned at the end of the Hellenistic period, it has remained in a good state of preservation ever since.
Marie-Françoise Boussac, Patrice Georges   +1 more
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The way we bury our dead. Reflections on mortuary ritual, community and identity at the time of the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition

Documenta Praehistorica, 2010
This paper discusses how archaeologists can approach ways in which the ritual treatment of the dead body was a means of reproducing a sense of identity and community in the past. The approach combines a theoretical framework grounded in practice and body
Liv Nilsson Stutz
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Reopening of the Sarmatian Graves: Looting or Ritual?

Etnoantropološki Problemi
The archaeothanatological and bioanthropological analysis of the necropolis at the Neuropsychiatric Hospital “Park” in Vršac revealed a complex and multifaceted pattern of grave reopening during the period of Late Antiquity (4th century AD).
Tamara Šarkić
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Wicked and Twisted? The Phenomenon of Atypical Burials in the Late Roman Period

Etnoantropološki Problemi
Burials deviating from the customary norms, differing from the other interments in the same necropolis, in terms of the position and treatment of the deceased’s body, the presence or absence of grave goods, or their location inside the necropolis, have ...
Marko Janković, Jovana Petrović
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ESTUDOS EM BIOARQUEOLOGIA E ARQUEOTANATOLOGIA NO SÍTIO PEDRA DO CACHORRO, BUIQUE, PE: Caracterização do sepultamento 3 (3.560 ± 30 AP)

Clio Arqueológica, 2018
O texto apresenta resultados das análises do contexto arqueológico e perfil biológico do sepultamento 3, escavado no sítio pré-histórico Pedra do Cachorro, Buíque, Pernambuco (3.560 ± 30 AP).
Ana Solari, Gabriela Martin, Sérgio Francisco Serafim Monteiro da Silva   +2 more
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Anthropologie biologique et archéologie : regards croisés ?

Archéopages, 2012
The transformation from physical anthropology to bioarchaeology has followed a chaotic path. During the 1960s and 1970s, the discipline of physical anthropology undertook much soul-searching. From this questioning emerged an academic syllabus strongly in
Hervé Guy, Anne Richier
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The Corpse in the Early Bronze Age. Results of Histotaphonomic and Archaeothanatological Investigations of Human Remains from the Cemetery of Franzhausen I, Lower Austria [PDF]

Archaeologia Austriaca, 2018
It has recently been suggested by British archaeologists and anthropologists that mummification may have been widespread in Bronze Age Europe. This article presents the results of a study that, for the first time, investigates the question of whether the people who inhabited central Europe during the Early Bronze Age treated the bodies of their dead ...
Mandl, Kirsten, Novotny, Friederike, Teschler-Nicola, Maria, Weiss-Krejci, Estella   +3 more
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An archaeothanatological approach to the study of Minoan funerary practices: Case-studies from the Early and Middle Minoan cemetery at Sissi, Crete [PDF]

Journal of Field Archaeology, 2015
Our understanding of Minoan funerary practices in the Early and Middle Bronze Age on Crete was until recently to a large degree informed by the excavations of cemeteries that took place early in the 20th century. However, the aforementioned excavations are characterized by a significant lack of detailed archaeological data regarding the precise ...
Crevecoeur, Isabelle, Schmitt, Aurore, Schoep, Ilse   +2 more
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