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

Urban 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
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The Eneolithic cemetery at Khvalynsk on the Volga River

Praehistorische 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, A. Khokhlov, S. Agapov, D. S. Agapov, R. Schulting, I. Olalde, D. Reich   +6 more
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SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Mortuary and Cemetery Workers.

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2021
BACKGROUND Mortuary and cemetery workers may be exposed to bodies of persons with SARS-CoV-2 infection. However, prevalence of infection among these groups is unknown.
Moza Alishaq, A. Jeremijenko, Hanaa Nafady-Hego, J. A. Al Ajmi, Mohamed Elgendy, R. Fadel, Anil G. Thomas, M. A. Alahmed, Adham Ammar, M. Bensaad, B. Al-Barghouthi, P. Coyle, Hamed Elgendy, A. Abou-Samra, A. Butt   +14 more
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Spatio-temporal patterns of cemetery use among Middle Holocene hunter-gatherers of Cis-Baikal, Eastern Siberia

, 2021
Hunter-gatherer archaeology typically focusses on the details of subsistence strategies and material culture and, in the case of cemeteries, on various aspects of mortuary practices, beliefs, and social differentiation.
C. Ramsey, R. Schulting, V. I. Bazaliiskii, O. Goriunova, Andrzej Weber   +4 more
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An Ethical, Cultural and Historical Background for Cemetery-Based Human Skeletal Reference Collections

Journal 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
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Social justice and cemetery systems

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

Open 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, Chai Yanwei, Xu Peiwei, Wang Xinxing   +3 more
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Style and Shape of Bolgar-Tatar Sepulchral Monuments: unity and uniqueness

Поволжская археология, 2023
The installing of sepulchral monuments is not an obligatory element of funeral culture in Islam. However, this phenomenon is widespread among the Tatar people. The tradition, which appeared in ancient times, still exists today. This article discusses the
Mukhametshin Dzhamil G.
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Cemetery types and the biodiversity of vascular plants – A case study from south-eastern Poland

, 2020
Burial sites shaped in accordance with the traditions cherished by the local community are a foundation of cultural identity and valuable components of the cultural landscape.
R. Nowińska, A. Czarna, M. Kozłowska
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