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National Relics: Secular Sacrality, Museums, and Heritage‐Making in Nineteenth‐Century Chile

Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 2, Fall 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines how objects and bodily remains are transformed and ritualized into national relics through collecting and exhibiting practices in museums. Focusing on nineteenth‐century Chile, it draws on archival sources, material culture theory, and the anthropology of religion to argue that objects associated with Chile's nation‐state
Hugo Rueda Ramírez
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Provenance Analysis Based on Cluster In‐Betweenness and Support Vector Machines: Identifying Migrant Candidates Using Multi‐Isotope Fingerprints

Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 4, Page 607-619, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Provenance reconstruction using strontium and lead stable isotopes can produce complex multidimensional fingerprints, challenging traditional methods. Identifying nonlocals, who migrated between sites, is a major task. Migrants are identifiable by divergent multi‐isotope fingerprints due to isotopic mixing between origin and destination sites.
Andrea Göhring, Daniyal Kazempour, Jan Robert Bensien, Sweety Mohanty, Claudius Zelenka, Matthias Renz, Peer Kröger, Gisela Grupe, Amei Lang   +8 more
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Futuristic cemetery designs, visions of the future funerary architecture [PDF]

Architecture Papers of the Faculty of Architecture and Design STU, 2020
Several important trends influence modern metropolises, including globalization, multiculturalism and overpopulation resulting in lack of free space. These trends relate to funerary culture in a specific way.
Ing. arch. Mária Jurášková, PhD.
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Navigating the Flames: Comparative Analysis of Cremation Practices in the Roman and Early Medieval Periods at Gbely‐Kojatín (SK) and Přítluky (CZ)

Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 4, Page 818-830, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Cremation became the dominant funerary practice in the Middle Danube Region during the Roman Period (RP) (1st–4th century) and reappeared in the Early Medieval Ages (EMA) (6th/7th–8th century). This study aims to reconstruct differences in cremation conditions from the Gbely‐Kojatín site (Slovakia, RP and EMA) and the Přítluky site (Czech ...
Katarína Hladíková, Anna Pankowská, Marek Hladík, Pavla Kučerová, Rastislav Milovský   +4 more
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Suffering, Silence, and the State: Mass Observation's 1994 Assisted Dying Letters and the Enduring Politics of Palliative Care

Politics &Policy, Volume 54, Issue 4, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Assisted dying has returned to UK policy debate amid legislative scrutiny and growing hospice sector instability. This paper brings 1994 Mass Observation data into dialog with contemporary debates to examine how members of the public understood suffering, autonomy, and care at the end of life.
Kathryn McEwan, Irene Hardill, Helen Merlane   +2 more
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Custodians of Controversy: Navigating Stewardship Challenges With Non‐Consensual Anatomized Human Skeletonized Individuals in South Africa

American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 190, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT South Africa, like many countries, holds collections of human skeletonized individuals historically acquired through anatomical dissection programs. This paper examines non‐consensual anatomized and unclaimed (NCAU) state‐directed skeletonized individuals, whose presence in collections pose significant legal, ethical, and professional ...
A. Alblas, V. E. Gibbon
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Anatomists' experience and perspectives on the international transfer of human remains for the purpose of education

Anatomical Sciences Education, Volume 19, Issue 7, Page 1110-1123, July 2026.
Abstract Anecdotally, educational institutions without access to human remains may choose to import these from other countries; however, there is currently no published information illuminating the existence of this trade. This study therefore aimed to document the nature of international transfer of human remains for education, and explore anatomists'
Jackie Hazelhurst, Jon Cornwall, Brandi Schmitt, Brendon Billings, Susana Biasutto, Andreas Winkelmann, Jian Yang, Laura Johnson   +7 more
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THE EARLIEST BURIAL CREMATIONS IN TOMSK OB' RIVER REGION (CHRONOLOGICAL, CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION)

Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2015
The paper deals with some issues of cultural and chronological interpretation of the earliest burial cremations in the forest Tomsk Ob' River region – early burials of Tomsk burial ground, Old Muslim cemetery, Samus' burial ground, Baturinsky Island ...
A. G. Marochkin
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Bioarchaeology aids the cultural understanding of six characters in search of their agency (Tarquinia, ninth–seventh century BC, central Italy)

Scientific Reports
Etruria contained one of the great early urban civilisations in the Italian peninsula during the first millennium BC, much studied from a cultural, humanities-based, perspective, but relatively little with scientific data, and rarely in combination.
G. Bagnasco, M. Marzullo, C. Cattaneo, L. Biehler-Gomez, D. Mazzarelli, V. Ricciardi, W. Müller, A. Coppa, R. McLaughlin, L. Motta, O. Prato, F. Schmidt, F. Gaveriaux, G. B. Marras, M. A. Millet, R. Madgwick, R. Ballantyne, C.A. Makarewicz, A. Trentacoste, P. Reimer, V. Mattiangeli, D. G. Bradley, C. Malone, C. Esposito, E. M. Breslin, S. Stoddart   +25 more
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Fire and Bone: An Experimental Study of Cremation

EXARC Journal, 2013
Many bone fragments have been burned in controlled laboratory conditions but few have been burned on outdoor pyres. In order to study and understand cremated bone, it is crucial to conduct experiments in real environmental conditions.
Christophe Snoeck, R.J. Schulting
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