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Ritual re-representation and the making of sociality: rethinking elite burials in the Late Shang Yinxu

Archaeology International
Previous studies of Late Shang mortuary practices have focused on drawing direct correlations between burial remains and socio-political orders, while neglecting how personhood and social relationships were framed through the treatment of the corpse and ...
Zhengyuan Wang
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Stanway: an Elite Burial Site at Camulodunum

2018
Britannia Monograph series ...
Crummy, Nina, Shimmin, D, Crummy, Philip, Rigby, Valery, Benfield, Stephen F   +4 more
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Burial of the Pazyryk Elite Members at Khankarinsky Dol, Northwestern Altai

Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia (Russian-language), 2022
Статья посвящена результатам комплексного изучения материалов из кург. 30 могильника Ханкаринский Дол, расположенного на левом берегу р. Ини в 1-1,5 км к юго-востоку от с. Чинета Краснощековского р-на Алтайского края (Северо-Западный Алтай). Исследованный объект относится к пазырыкской культуре.
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Metal of the "Cimmerian elite" of the North Caucasus ( on the materials of tomb 3 of the Terese burial ground)

Vostok. Afro-aziatskie obshchestva: istoriia i sovremennost, 2023
  The article publishes the results of a study of bronze items from tomb 3 of the Terese burial ground (Central North Caucasus, Karachay-Cherkessia), one of the richest burials of the Koban culture of the Central North Caucasus during the Cimmerian ...
Vladimir R. Ehrlikh
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Aftermath A.D. 696—Late 7th and Early 8th Century Special Deposits and Elite Main Plaza Burials at Buenavista del Cayo, Western Belize: A Study in Classic Maya “Historical Archaeology”

Journal of Field Archaeology, 2018
Between 1984 and 1989, a number of depositional contexts were excavated at the Classic Maya center/site of Buenavista del Cayo in the upper Belize Valley that appeared to be products of sudden cessations of activity or architectural “terminations” dating
J. Ball, Jennifer T. Taschek
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CHANGES IN THE FUNERAL CULTURE OF THE SOCIAL ELITE IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 18TH-EARLY 19TH CENTURY. ON THE EXAMPLE OF BURIALS OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ROZUMOVSKY FAMILY

Scientific Herald of Sivershchyna Series Education Social and Behavioural Sciences
The article examines the peculiarities of the funerary culture of representatives of the social elite of the second half of the 18th century using the example of the Razumovsky family.
A. Popruzhna
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The Jewish elite of Sepphoris in late antiquity: indications from burial inscriptions

Journal of Jewish Studies, 2017
The inscriptions from the cemeteries of Sepphoris serve as a vivid reflection of Jewish life and culture in this vibrant city of late antique Palestine. Two of these burial inscriptions are studied in this article: a bilingual inscription (Greek and Aramaic) and a Greek inscription that was uncovered more than a century ago and mistakenly read as a ...
Jacob Ashkenazi, Mordechai Aviam
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TSARAM: A BURIAL GROUND OF THE HSIUNG-NU ELITE IN TRANSBAIKALIA

Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia, 2009
From 1998–2005, the Transbaikal Archaeological Expedition from the St. Petersburg Institute for the History of Material Culture excavated a burial ground of the Asian Hun (Hsiung-nu) elite at Tsaram, Kyakhta Region, Buryatia. The complex included a central mound (the largest in Russia and one of the largest worldwide) and ten accompanying burials with ...
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A centurion’s monkey? Companion animals for the social elite in an Egyptian port on the fringes of the Roman Empire in the 1st and 2nd c. CE

Journal of Roman Archaeology
Monkeys kept as exotic pets by wealthy Romans have hitherto been determined as African species exclusively, specifically Barbary macaques, in the few documented cases of monkey skeletons. This has now been revised following the discovery of three dozen
Marta Osypińska, P. Osypiński, Iwona Zych   +2 more
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Burials of Horsemen of the Scythian Time at the Zayukovo-3 Burial Ground

Stratum plus. Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology
The article discusses two burials of horsemen from the Zayukovo-3 cemetery. Both burials included bridled riding horses decorated with plaques in the Scythian tradition, featuring images in the Scythian animal style.
A. Kadieva, S. Demidenko
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