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An Aboriginal burial with grave goods near Cooma, New South Wales

Australian Archaeology, 1996
An Aboriginal site, accidentally exposed during a creek flooding episode in 1991, contained the skeletons of two individuals dated to ca.7000 years BP, together with a suite of rare grave goods. Although highly disturbed, the site is highly significant, both as the oldest recorded burial on the New South Wales southern tablelands and for the rarity of ...
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Good Friday ceremonies of the burial of Christ in Medieval Bohemia

2023
Cet essai présente la Depositio qui était pratiquée dans la partie du royaume de Bohême qui correspondait à la Tchéquie moderne, c’est-a-dire dans les évêchés de Prague et d’Olomouc. Comme ces deux diocèses dépendaient originellement du l’archéveêché de Mainz, leur Depositio usait de chants typiques des territoires de langue allemande.
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Grave goods from the Saint-Germain-la-Rivière burial: Evidence for social inequality in the Upper Palaeolithic

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 2005
Abstract Archaeozoological and technological analyses of the grave goods associated with the Saint-Germain-la-Riviere burial (15,570 ± 200 B.P.) and their comparison with ornaments and faunal assemblages from contemporary Magdalenian sites and burials reveal the exceptional character of this inhumation. The great number of perforated red deer canines
Marian Vanhaeren, Francesco D’Errico
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Grave Goods of an Elite Saka Burial at Kyrykoba in the Context of Cultural Ties Between the Nomads of Kazakhstan and Siberia

Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia (Russian-language), 2022
Приведены результаты изучения материалов раскопок кургана раннесакского времени Кырыкоба в Восточном Казахстане. Памятник разграблен, содержал останки человека. По заключению антропологов, в кургане быта похоронена женщина зрелого возраста с признаками трепанации черепа. В захоронении обнаружены ок.
K. A. Iskakov, U. U. Umitkaliev, O. A. Mitko   +2 more
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Accompanying Grave Goods from the Kyrgyz Warrior Burial from the Vicinity of the Novoselovo Village (Krasnoyarsk Region)

Vestnik NSU. Series: History and Philology, 2022
Purpose. An analysis of the collection of iron weapons of the Kyrgyz warrior and the equipment of his riding horse showed that they come from a burial made according to the cremation rite. Items of horse equipment are: a bit with a hook method of connecting links and cheek-pieces in the form of large rings; two arched stirrups with holes in the upper ...
S. M. Fokin, O. A. Mitko
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(Re)Considering the Pre-Burial Life of Grave Goods: Towards a Renewed Debate on Early Medieval Burial Chronology on the Continent

Medieval and Modern Matters, 2012
The reduction of the length of chronological phases is still a major issue in the current chronological debate in early medieval archaeology on the continent. Short phases imply a rapid and steady change of grave goods assemblages and are thought to support the assumption that the dead were buried with their inalienable personal possessions.
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Grave-Goods as Gifts in Early Saxon Burials (ca. AD 450-600)

Journal of Social Archaeology, 2004
This paper considers the possibility that Anglo-Saxon grave-goods, rather than having been the life possessions of the deceased, may have been gifts to him or her, thereby directly effecting a relationship between the survivors and the donor. This cautions against ‘life-mirror’ approaches to burial data that assume a reflective correspondence between ...
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Prestige Goods from Élite Burials as Markers of Self-Identity and Networking of the Élites

Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia, 2020
Abstract The author proposes an approach to determine self-identities, boundaries, internal political organization and foreign relations of ancient societies using materials of burials of élites in the lack of representative written sources.
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Grave Goods from Megalithic Burials in the Upland Forests of the Nilgiri Mountains, South India: Analysis and Chronology

Asian Perspectives, 2021
The article examines the grave goods excavated in the nineteenth century from megalithic burials on the tops and ridges of the Nilgiri Mountains in southern India, an area of montane subtropical forests. This analysis is based on the study of the collection of Nilgiri grave goods held at the British Museum combined with a preliminary survey around the ...
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A pyre and grave goods in British cremation burials; have we missed something?

Antiquity, 1994
There is more to a cremation than the human bone — turned white and blue-grey by the fire, enough to fill a fair-sized hat — because so much may go on the pyre with the corpse.
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