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Sépultures secondaires à crémation
Over the past thirty years, the study of secondary burials by cremation has grown considerably in France in the context of the development of archaeo-anthropology.
Henri Duday
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Buddhist Burial-Memorial Complexes from the Materials of Mayachny Bugor Burial Ground
The article is concerned with an analysis of the archaeological residues of three adobe brick structures studied in different years at Mayachny Bugor subsoil burial ground in the Astrakhan Oblast.
Vasiliev Dmitry V., Chichko Tatyana V.
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The idea of human mortality and the funerary practices that derive from it seems to be one of the most enduring aspects of culture. What if we stated that death means nothing but pure organic decomposing, leaving nothing behind but the chemical ...
Anna Sokolova
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At the Burning Ground: Death and Transcendence in Bengali Shaktism
The burning ground is both a place and a metaphor in the religion of Shaktism or goddess worship in West Bengal, India. As a place, it is where corpses are cremated.
June McDaniel
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The Kola Oleneostrovsky burial ground is located on the Bolshoy Oleny Island in the Murmansk region. It was discovered in 1925 and investigated by excavations three times (A.V. Shmidt, N.N. Gurina, V.Ya. Shumkin, respectively).
Vladimir Ya. Shumkin
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Folded, layered textiles from a Bronze Age pit pyre excavated from Over Barrow 2, Cambridgeshire, England. [PDF]
The textiles from Over Barrow, Cambridgeshire, England present the opportunity to examine the burial practices at the end of the Early Bronze Age. They were excavated from a pit pyre cremation along with cremated bone, a bone needle/pin and two small ...
Harris, Susanna
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Une nécropole du Bronze final IIb à Saint-Epvre « Le Bois de Saint-Epvre » (Moselle)
cemetery, cremation burials, mortuary practices, pottery, Late Bronze Age IIbTrial trenches carried out on the LGV est rail track has brought to light a small cremation cemetery dating to the Late Bronze Age IIb period.
Stéphane Lenda +2 more
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In Defiance of a Stylistic Stereotype: British Crematoria, Architecture, Design and Landscape [PDF]
This paper presented a new critical reading of the crematorium, rendered ‘invisible’ by the taboo surrounding death and provided the first opportunity to disseminate this research to an international audience.
Grainger, Hilary J.
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Abstract The development of anatomy has been marked by ethically questionable practices. This has been because the dissection of human bodies has always existed on the periphery of conventional society, necessitating a range of dubious ways of obtaining dead bodies for educational and research purposes.
David Gareth Jones
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A grave with tools for metalworking from early Viking age at Nordheim in Sogndal. An analysis of grave goods, chains of actions and symbolism A recently excavated early Viking-age grave from Sogndal in Sogn and Fjordane County in Western Norway ...
Randi Barndon, Asle Bruen Olsen
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