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Pratiques funéraires des populations du second âge du Fer en Gaule : nouvelles perspectives de recherche et études préliminaires de cas champenois et normands

open access: yesBulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris
Recent methodological advances in archaeology, and preventive archaeology in particular, have prompted new interest in studies of Iron Age societies through their funerary practices.
Elodie Caserta   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

La grotte de Cussac (Dordogne)

open access: yesLes Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2019
The recently discovered (2000) Cussac Cave is one of the major elaborately decorated caves for which the Ministry of Culture immediately invoked protective measures, including climatic controls and land and equipment purchases.
Jacques Jaubert   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Approches comparative et analytique des pratiques funéraires anciennes à Mbanza Kongo (Province du Zaïre, Angola)

open access: yesAfriques
This paper focuses on the study of burial practices, including biological anthropology and archaeothanatology, through archaeological excavations of two burial sites in the historical city of Mbanza Kongo, the former capital of the Kongo kingdom.
Eloi Cyrille Tollo
doaj   +1 more source

The social landscape of death: a theoretical perspective on funerary practices in Post-Medieval Portugal

open access: yesAntropologia Portuguesa
Funerary practices and burial sites offer valuable insights into how societies conceptualize death and an enhanced perspective on communities' social, economic, and cultural contexts.
Nathalie Antunes-Ferreira
doaj   +1 more source

ANÁLISE ARQUEOTANATOLÓGICA DE DUAS SEPULTURAS INFANTIS – SÍTIO JUSTINO-S

open access: yesClio Arqueológica, 2013
O trabalho tem por objetivo analisar os sepultamentos humanos através dos métodos propostos pela Arqueotanatologia, tendo como foco o modo de deposição do esqueleto em sua sepultura e os fatores que podem correlacioná-los.
Jaciara Andrade Silva, Olívia Carvalho
doaj  

Archaeothanatology as a Tool for Interpreting Death During Pregnancy: A Proposed Methodology Using Examples from Medieval Ireland

open access: yes, 2019
Archaeothanatoloy involves assessment of the changes a corpse undergoes from the time of death from both biological and social perspectives. It considers decomposition processes in conjunction with mortuary practices and the approach has been applied to a wide range of burial contexts.
Le Roy, Melie, Murphy, Eileen
openaire   +3 more sources

The Ornaments of the Arma Veirana Early Mesolithic Infant Burial. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Archaeol Method Theory, 2023
Gravel-Miguel C   +16 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Burial practices in Byzantine Ephesos: new archaeothanatological data from the Church of Mary cemetery

open access: yesAntiquity
The Church of Mary in Ephesos (Türkiye)—a major early Christian site—was founded in the early fifth century CE and used as a funerary space until the fifteenth century. While burials have been documented in excavations at the site since the 1980s, mortuary practices were not systematically evaluated.
Caroline Partiot   +4 more
openaire   +1 more source

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