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The Southern Frontier of the Meroitic State: The View from Jebel Moya [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
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]

open access: yes, 2017
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Mitchell, Juliette, Noble, Gordon
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Burials of Pazyryk Culture: Social Differentiations

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2020
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

open access: yesАрхеология евразийских степей, 2021
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]

open access: yes, 2013
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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Elista Burial Mound Site: Analyzing the Correlation between Early and Middle Bronze Age Mounds and Burials

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2020
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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A FIND OF THE NORTH-CAUCASIAN CERAMICS IN THE ELITE BURIAL OF THE ISAKOVKA I BURIAL GROUND (WESTERN SIBERIA)

open access: yesHistory, Archeology and Ethnography of the Caucasus, 2022
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]

open access: yes, 2015
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

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2021
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]

open access: yes, 2013
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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