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The funerary and architectural history of an ancient Maya residential group: Group 5N6, Naachtun, Guatemala

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, Philippe Nondédéo   +1 more
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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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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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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

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

Bulletins 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, Lola Bonnabel, Gaëlle Granier   +2 more
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