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The Southern Frontier of the Meroitic State: The View from Jebel Moya [PDF]
The site of Jebel Moya, excavated in the early twentieth century, represents arguably the largest pastoral mortuary complex in Africa. Jebel Moya is resituated in relation to the neighbouring Meroitic-era agro-pastoral settlements and the only known ...
Brass, M
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The Monumental Cemeteries of Northern Pictland [PDF]
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Mitchell, Juliette, Noble, Gordon
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Burials of Pazyryk Culture: Social Differentiations
Introduction. Specialists dealing with the Pazyryk culture keep posing questions about its social structure. Traditionally, scholars ― with due account of outer parameters of kurgans, depths and areas of graves, numbers of buried horses, quantities and
Maria A. Ochir-Goryaeva
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Non-Islamic Burials in the territory of the Kyrk-Azizler Muslim Burial Ground
Kyrk-Azizler burial ground is located on the northern outskirts of the city of Bakhchisaray. This necropolis is well known from written sources and the studies of the early twentieth century.
Maksim Yu. Menshikov +1 more
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Mortuary Workers, the Church, and the Funeral Trade in Late Antiquity [PDF]
Within the city of Constantinople, Constantine organized numerous funeral workers into associations overseen by a bishop, as part of a scheme meant to provide burials for all who needed them within the city.
Bond, Sarah E.
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Introduction. Elista grave field is a largest and most investigated one in the Ergeni Uplands, with the bulk of barrows and burials dated to the Bronze Age.
Erdni A. Kekeev
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We present the results of a multi-disciplinary analysis of a jug and its contents from the elite burial complex of the Sargat culture in Middle Irtysh Basin (burial Isakovka I, mound 3, burial 6). The burial, along with military equipment and various metallic import, contained a ceramic jug, the closest analogies to which are found in the production ...
Svetlana V. Sharapova +9 more
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Memory, tradition, and Christianization of the Peloponnese [PDF]
This work examines the use of memory and tradition in the Christianization of the Peloponnese based on the evidence of the location and topography of churches.
Sweetman, Rebecca Jane
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Social Symbolism of Toreutics in Kimek Society: Status of Male Warrior Revisited
The article aims to show the role of toreutic items in the demonstration of the status of a male warrior. Materials. In the Middle Ages toreutics was mainly used in decorating costume details and items of military and horse equipment.
Bakyt М. Khasenova +3 more
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Black mortality in antebellum Savannah [PDF]
Black mortality in an urban environment in the antebellum South is relatively under-researched. This article is based on burial records from Savannah between 1853 and 1861 and argues that black mortality in Savannah was noticeably better than on nearby ...
Lockley, Timothy James
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