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The death of the old Tsarina Alexandra (1614) and the Russian funeral rite of the XVI-XVII centuries

Proceedings of the Komi Science Centre of the Ural Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2022
Evdokiya Bogdanovna Saburova was the first wife of Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich, the son of Ivan IV the Terrible. She stayed in the status of a tsa¬rina for about a year, but lived a long life as the old Alexandra of the Suzdal Pokrovsky Monastery, occupying
S. Shokarev
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Clothing Assemblage in the Burial Rituals of the Early Iron Age Population of the Upper Ob River Region

Stratum plus. Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology, 2022
The article characterizes the clothing assemblage in the burial rituals of the Early Iron Age population of the Upper Ob River region. The work draws from the materials found on the Bolsherechenskaya sites of the 8th (7th) — 3rd (2nd) centuries BC. Using
N. Golovchenko
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The spindle and the spear: A critical enquiry into the construction and meaning of gender in the early anglo-saxon burial rite

, 1999
Based on burial data from 46 Anglo-Saxon cemeteries, Nick Stoodley presents a much needed study of gender issues. A thorough investigation of the attribution of grave goods to either male or female, and of skeletal sexing, leads to a re-assessment of the
N. Stoodley
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An island decides: megalithic burial rites on Menorca

Antiquity, 2006
Recent research including 781 radiocarbon dates and the excavation of Ses Arenes de Baix, has allowed a new review of the sequence of megalithic burial practice on Menorca. Rock-cut tombs, dolmens, caves with entrance-works and the famous boat-shaped houses and tombs (navetes) are placed in overlapping chronological order.
Sylvia Gili, Vicente Lull, Rafael Micó, Cristina Rihuete, Roberto Risch   +4 more
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The DNA portrait of an individual from the Medieval necropolis of “Patriarchal Garden” (Vladimir city) with a rare funeral rite — a stone pillow

VESTNIK ARHEOLOGII ANTROPOLOGII I ETNOGRAFII
The history of Ancient Rus’ is inextricably linked with the history of ancient Vladimir, the capital of North-Eastern Rus’ in the 12th–14th centuries. Historical, anthropological, and archaeological data suggest a complex composition of the population of
A.I. Alperovich, A. Soshkina, T. Andreeva, S. S. Kunizheva, I. Adrianova, A.B. Malarchuk, I. L. Kuznetsova, N. N. Goncharova, D. A. Kabaev, L. L. Chernyaeva, E. Rogaev   +10 more
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Reading the Funeral Rite: A Cultural Analysis of the Funeral Ceremonials and Burial of Selected Leading Sportsmen in Victorian England, 1864–1888.

Journal of Sport History, 2011
The study of sporting death is a neglected area of the history of sport. This paper, though drawing on English material, therefore has implications for American and other studies.
M. Huggins
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FUNERAL RITES OF THE “ALEXANDRIAN ROCKS” BURIAL GROUND

Hypanis. Труды отдела классической археологии ИА РАН, 2023
Основу статьи составили материалы, полученные в результате исследования курганной группы «Александровские скалы 1», которая находилась к юго-западу от г. Керчи на территории Октябрьского сельского поселения (Ленинский район, Республика Крым). В полах двух курганов этой группы были открыты два непотревоженных участка некрополя римского времени ...
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V. The Shield in the Burial Rite

Archaeologia, 1992
Shields are among the more common grave goods in Early Anglo-Saxon burials. In the investigated sample of forty-seven cemeteries with a total of 3,814 inhumations, 317 burials (8·3 per cent) in forty-three cemeteries contained a shield (Appendix 3).
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Maimed Rites: Suicide Burials in the English Landscape

Time and Mind, 2011
AbstractThe ignominious burial of suicides at crossroads, including the desecration of their bodies, was required by law in England until 1823. Such inhumane treatment has been seen as evidence for the survival of a primitive superstitious mentality, trying to exorcise a potentially harmful ghost. This interpretation of suicide burial as an essentially
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Blood Revenge and Burial Rites in Ancient Israel

Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1919
GOETHE, in speaking of laws and legal rights, says that they are transmitted from age to age like an eternal disease. I have often wondered if Goethe, were he living today, would not extend his remark to some of our most firmly rooted Biblical theories, which for over half a century have found their way from one Biblical commentary or textbook into ...
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