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“The Cremation of the Dead” [PDF]
IN your excellent article on the above subject (p. 219), it is stated that a provision contained in the will of a testator directing the cremation of his remains has no legal effect. This is no doubt correct, for, although the law permits a man to dispose of his property by will, it does not permit him to dispose of his own corpse.
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Necrópolis Ibérica de «El Cigarralejo» : estudio osteológico (comparado con los ajuares)
Se expone detalladamente la «historia» osteológica de 187 cremados de la Necrópolis Ibérica de «El Cigarralejo»: sexo, edad, medidas de epífisis y grosores de pared en ios fragmentos más frecuentes, paleontología que presentan, sus interrogantes y ...
M. Santonja Alonso
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Burning the dead: Human bones subjected to fire in southwestern Swedish megalithic graves
In this paper, a series of new radiocarbon dates on burnt human bones recovered from megalithic graves in southwestern Sweden is reported. The purpose was to reveal possible chronological patterns of these depositions.
Malou Blank
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BRONZE AGE CATTLE TEETH AND CREMATIONS FROM A MONUMENTAL BURIAL CAIRN IN SELKÄKANGAS, FINLAND: NEW RADIOCARBON DATES AND ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; pp. 3–23 [PDF]
In this paper we present new data from the monumental Bronze Age cairn of Selkäkangas, Nakkila, excavated by the Department of Archaeology of the University of Turku in 1978â1981.
Auli Bläuer +3 more
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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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THE BROKEN PEOPLE: DECONSTRUCTION OF PERSONHOOD IN IRON AGE FINLAND [PDF]
The article is an attempt to characterize the concept of personhood as seen in the existence of collective cremation cemeteries under level ground in Iron Age Finland.
Anna Wickholm, Sami Raninen
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Un système de sépulture égalitaire en territoire tarquinien
The study of Musarna’s Hellenistic necropolis has drawn attention to a particular type of grave, identified by 19th-century archaeologists as tomba a cassone.
Edwige Lovergne
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