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Археология евразийских степей, 2023 The paper presents for the first time the materials of 4 burials from the Sintashta culture necropolis in the Orenburg Cis-Urals, where the Seima-Turbino inventory was found.
Lidiya V. Кuptsova +1 more
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Things of the ground: Children's medicine, motherhood and memory in the Cameroon grassfields [PDF]
, 2011 Copyright @ 2011 Cambridge University PressSoon after birth, infants in the Cameroon Grassfields chiefdom of Oku are submitted by their parents to rites known generically as ‘children's medicine’ (k∂fu ∂bwan). Ostensibly performed to protect infants from
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New Pre-Scythian Burials from the Volgograd Region. Interpretation Problems
Нижневолжский археологический вестник, 2021 The article is devoted to the publication and analysis of new burial materials of the pre-Scythian period (9th – 7th centuries BC), obtained as a result of excavations of several burial mounds in the Volgograd region.
Alexandr N. Dyachenko
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MORTUARY RITES IN COVID-19: MOURNING & BURIAL RITES OF MIGRANTS IN NORTHERN PUNJAB
Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews, 2021 Purpose of the study: This study aims to highlight how death serves as a central feature of social ties among the natives of Northern Punjab. Death is a great leveller and one of the most curious aspects of human cognition. Bereavement follows the terminal rites de passage; the transition of the deceased from this world to the other world. ...
Aneela Sultana +2 more
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Българско е-Списание за Археология, 2020 This study examines the use of anthropomorphic figurines in burial practices of the Late Eneolithic Varna, KGKVI and KSB cultures. It contains the presentation and analysis of data on their deposition in necropolises, which show that they occurred ...
Vanya Stavreva
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Patterns in the modification of animal and human bones in Iron Age Wessex: revisiting the excarnation debate [PDF]
, 2008 Social practices concerning the treatment of human and animal remains in the Iron Age have long been a focus of debate in archaeological literature. The absence of evidence of a formal burial rite and the regular retrieval of human remains from ‘special’
Madgwick, Richard
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IRON AGE CELTIC ART AS THE RELIGIOUS METANARRATIVE VISUALIZATION
Актуальні питання суспільних наук та історії медицини, 2021 The purpose of the article is to reveal to which extent the Iron Age Celtic art visualized the metanarrative of the Celtic religion. The methodology is based on the applying of structural and semiotic approaches to the symbols and representations of ...
Gennadii KAZAKEVYCH
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Missing, Presumed Buried? Bone Diagenesis and the Under-Representation of Anglo-Saxon Children [PDF]
, 2000 YesSam Lucy (1994: 26) has stated that a `recognised feature of pre-Christian early medieval cemeteries in eastern England is the smaller number of younger burials recovered¿. Although taphonomic factors such as the increased rate of decay of the remains
Buckberry, Jo
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Outliving Love: Marital Estrangement in an African Insurance Market [PDF]
, 2016 Marital estrangement and formal divorce are vital conjunctures for married women’s kinship relations and life course, where a horizon of future possibilities are revalued and negotiated at the interstices of custom, law, and social and ritual obligations.
Golomski, Casey
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Excavations at the Viking Barrow Cemetery at Heath Wood, Ingleby, Derbyshire [PDF]
, 2004 The cemetery at Heath Wood, Ingleby, Derbyshire, is the only known Scandinavian cremation cemetery in the British Isles. It comprises fifty-nine barrows, of which about one-third have been excavated on previous occasions, although earlier excavators ...
Beswick, P. +6 more
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