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The returning dead: unconventional inhumations in Medieval Lithuania

Lietuvos Istorijos Studijos, 2010
The paper analyses unconventional burials in Christian Lithuania in the 14th-17th centuries. The burials contain either headless or limbless bodies buried with face downwards or on their side; such inhumations are not to be attributed as occasional or ...
Gintautas Vėlius
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A synthetic measure of mortality using skeletal data from ancient cemeteries: the d index [PDF]

, 2018
Background: Due to the scarcity of written sources in ancient historical periods, and thanks to the development of increasingly sophisticated methods of excavation, recognition, publication, and interpretation, archaeology has played an important role in
Barbiera, Irene, Castiglioni, Maria, DALLA ZUANNA, GIANPIERO   +2 more
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PRESERVE FROM OBLIVION - POLISH CULTURAL HERITAGE AND ITS IMPORTANCE IN THE SOCIAL SPACE OF THE POLES IN PIEDMONT [PDF]

, 2016
Cultural heritage of any nation will aff ect both the supporting national identity, as well as creates collective memory, is shaping it, enriches and makes the material expression.
Henczel-Wróblewska, Ligia
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The Monumental Cemeteries of Northern Pictland [PDF]

, 2017
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Mitchell, Juliette, Noble, Gordon
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An Anglo-Saxon execution cemetery at Walkington Wold, Yorkshire [PDF]

, 2007
This paper presents a re-evaluation of a cemetery excavated over 30 years ago at Walkington Wold in east Yorkshire. The cemetery is characterized by careless burial on diverse alignments, and by the fact that most of the skeletons did not have ...
allison k.j., bailey g.b., bartlett j.e., boylston a., briden c., briden c., buikstra j., byers s.n., carver m., daniell c., daniell c., griffith a.f., hadley d.m., hall r.a., hayman g., hill n.g., liddell d.m., meaney a.l., meaney a.l., miles a.e.w., nenk b.s., novak s., pantos a., philpott r., pollard a.m., Reynolds a, reynolds a., reynolds a., richards j.d., rypins s., scheuer l., semple s., skeat w.w., stead i.m., stroud g., suchey j.m., waldron t., west s.e., wymer j.j.   +38 more
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Four rural cemeteries in central western NSW: Islands of Australiana in a European sea? [PDF]

, 2013
Vascular plants present in groundstoreys of variously–managed areas in four cemeteries in central western NSW – two on the Central Western Slopes (Garra and Toogong) and two on the Central Tablelands (Lyndhurst and Carcoar) – were recorded over periods ...
Cole, Ian A., Koen, Terry B., Rankin, Madeleine O., Semple, William S.   +3 more
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The last great necessity: cemeteries in American history

Choice Reviews Online, 1991
Blanche Linden-Ward, David Charles Sloane   +1 more
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Tackling the technical history of the textiles of El-Deir, Kharga Oasis, the Western Desert of Egypt [PDF]

, 2020
The site of El-Deir is situated north of Kharga in the “Great Oasis” of the Egyptian Western Desert (fig. 1). The site was occupied between the 6th century BC and the 6th century AD. A complex history emerged with the influence of many cultures: Persian,
Letellier-Willemin, Fleur
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Mission Santa Clara in a Changing Urban Environment [PDF]

, 2015
Since its secularization in the 1830s, Mission Santa Clara de Asís and its associated grounds have seen major transformations. These changes include the gradual abandonment of the mission by its native inhabitants, the Californio and early Anglo-American
Panich, Lee M
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Mort pour la France: conflict and commemoration in France after the First World War [PDF]

, 2000
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Edwards, Peter
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