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"Oganj - association of cremation in Belgrade": Development, ideas and symbols [PDF]

Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2006
And although the development and spreading of the idea of cremation, as well as mentioned laws, could be seen as the beginning of secularization of death death has remained, for a long time, closely associated with this or that religious beliefs and ...
Pavićević Aleksandra
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Dying to Go Green: The Introduction of Resomation in the United Kingdom

Religions, 2021
In an age where concern for the environment is paramount, individuals are continuously looking for ways to reduce their carbon footprint—does this now extend to in one’s own death? How can one reduce the environmental impact of their own death?
Georgina M. Robinson
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The necropolises of “Cherna–Sihleanu” type: are they biritual and what in fact does biritualism mean?

Българско е-Списание за Археология, 2022
The paper reviews a group of five Early Medieval necropolises on the territories of modern-day Northeast Bulgaria and Southeast Romania, which demonstrate some intriguing features.
Vladimir Staykov
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Human, All Too Human: Differentiating Non-Human from Human Bones in Protohistoric Cremation Contexts from Northern Italy

Heritage, 2023
Differentiating cremated non-human bones from human ones in archaeological contexts is a challenging task. This analysis aims at proposing a rather solid criterion based on an osteoarchaeological sample.
Omar Larentis
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Tradition and the culture of rights at the crossroads: A literary perspective

Literator, 2015
Using cultural theories, this article focuses on a literary text that presents a fresh perspective on one of the cultural practices of disposing of a dead body, namely cremation.
Nompumelelo B. Zondi, Bonginkosi C. Khuzwayo   +1 more
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Experimental studies on diagnosis of death from drowning by means of detection of vegetative planktons (diatoms) II. Detection of diatoms from putrefied and cremated bones of drowned bodies [PDF]

, 1961
A series of experiments have been conducted with ten adult rabbits, drowning them to death in a ditch those water contains diatoms in abundance. The bones (selected ones are the femur, humerus, riHand vertebra) of these drowned rabbits have been buried ...
Okuyama, Masami
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SERF Archive Report: Lithics from WH15 [PDF]

, 2018
Analysis of the lithic assemblage from SERF excavations of an Early Neolithic pit cluster, and a Bronze Age cist with cremation deposit undertaken at Wellhill, Dunning in ...
Wright, Dene
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(Un)Usual Neolithic and Early Eneolithic mortuary practices in the area of the North Carpathian Basin

Documenta Praehistorica, 2010
On the basis of the characteristics of Neolithic and Early Eneolithic mortuary practices in the area of North Carpathian Basin it can be argued that the existence of graveyards is an isolated phenomenon.
Alena Bistáková, Noémi Pažinová
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Dust to ashes

African Theological Journal for Church and Society, 2022
This article explores cremation as an alternative way of disposing of the dead among African Christians in Kenya. It examines the theological justification for this practice as an accepted way of disposing of the dead. The study applies the Zerfass Model[
Francis Omondi
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Sépultures secondaires à crémation

Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2019
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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