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Everyday Use of the City Cemetery: A Study of Environmental Qualities and Perceived Restorativeness in a Scottish Context

open access: yesUrban Science, 2019
As the number of historical urban cemeteries where interment is no longer available continues to grow, the everyday use and restorative benefit of these spaces (beyond commemoration and remembrance) is worthy of further exploration.
Ka Yan Lai, Iain Scott, Ziwen Sun
doaj   +2 more sources

The Eneolithic cemetery at Khvalynsk on the Volga River

open access: yesPraehistorische Zeitschrift, 2022
The genetically attested migrations of the third millennium BC have made the origins and nature of the Yamnaya culture a question of broad relevance across northern Eurasia.
D. Anthony   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

An Ethical, Cultural and Historical Background for Cemetery-Based Human Skeletal Reference Collections

open access: yesJournal of Contemporary Archaeology, 2021
OPEN ACCESS-PAID-CC BY-NC-ND In historically Protestant countries, human skeletal reference collections curated by research institutions have been amassed from bodies dissected by anatomists, typically unclaimed cadavers from morgues and hospitals, or ...
H. Cardoso
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Social justice and cemetery systems

open access: yesDeath Studies, 2020
This paper applies social justice frameworks to “cemetery systems,” which here denotes the framework by which each nation state orders the disposal of the dead, and which generally includes burial, cremation and the interment or scattering of cremated ...
J. Rugg
semanticscholar   +1 more source

L’archéologie du groupe épiscopal d’Elne (Pyrénées-Orientales) de l’Antiquité tardive à l’époque moderne

open access: yesArchéologie Médiévale, 2023
In 2017, the foundations of a large church were unearthed on the plateau des Garaffes in Elne (Pyrénées-Orientales – France), 20 m east of the Romanesque cathedral built from the 11th century onwards. Its dating (6th-7th century) and size suggest that it
Olivier Passarrius   +5 more
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An Anglo-Saxon execution cemetery at Walkington Wold, Yorkshire [PDF]

open access: yes, 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.   +38 more
core   +1 more source

A Comparative Investigation of Groundwater Contamination in Typical Dumpsites and Cemetery Using Ert and Physicochemical Analysis of Water in Benin Metropolis, Nigeria

open access: yesJournal of Geoscience and Environment Protection, 2020
This paper investigated the comparative analysis of groundwater contamination in Third Cemetery and Costain Dumpsite in Benin Metropolis, South South of Nigeria, using Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) and Physicochemical analysis of water.
O. Idehen
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Co-Creating Ritual Spaces and Communities: An Analysis of Municipal Cemetery Tongerseweg, Maastricht, 1812–2020

open access: yesReligions, 2020
Cemeteries have been viewed in opposed ways as ritual spaces that either mirror society or present an idealized model of society. In this article, we propose an analysis of cemeteries as ritual spaces, focused on the case study of municipal cemetery ...
C. Jedan   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Spatiotemporal change of land use for deceased in Beijing since the mid-twentieth century

open access: yesOpen Geosciences, 2021
The land use for the deceased is not only for the dead but also for the living relatives. It competes with land use for living populations in urban areas through occupying a specific space of land.
Doi Haruhiro   +3 more
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