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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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La grotte de Cussac (Dordogne)

Les 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, Catherine Ferrier, Valérie Feruglio, Nathalie Fourment, Camille Bourdier, Stéphane Konik, Sébastien Villotte   +6 more
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Approches comparative et analytique des pratiques funéraires anciennes à Mbanza Kongo (Province du Zaïre, Angola)

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

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

Antiquity
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, Elise Baudouin, Fabian Hermann, Frédéric Boursier, Martin Steskal   +4 more
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ANÁLISE ARQUEOTANATOLÓGICA DE DUAS SEPULTURAS INFANTIS – SÍTIO JUSTINO-S

Clio 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
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Talking Dead. New burials from Tron Bon Lei (Alor Island, Indonesia) inform on the evolution of mortuary practices from the terminal Pleistocene to the Holocene in Southeast Asia. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2022
Samper-Carro SC, O'Connor S, Mahirta, Kealy S, Shipton C.   +4 more
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The Ornaments of the Arma Veirana Early Mesolithic Infant Burial. [PDF]

J Archaeol Method Theory, 2023
Gravel-Miguel C, Cristiani E, Hodgkins J, Orr CM, Strait DS, Peresani M, Benazzi S, Pothier-Bouchard G, Keller HM, Meyer D, Drohobytsky D, Talamo S, Panetta D, Zupancich A, Miller CE, Negrino F, Riel-Salvatore J.   +16 more
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Des morts à l’oubli — De l’oubli aux morts. Archéologie d’espaces funéraires : pratiques marginales et interactions culturelles, de la Gaule à l’Éthiopie

Archéopages, 2023
Yves Gleize
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Archaeothanatology as a Tool for Interpreting Death During Pregnancy: A Proposed Methodology Using Examples from Medieval Ireland

, 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
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