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Burial customs of the near east, with special reference to the Old Testament [PDF]
, 1939 Not ...
Plumley, J. Martin
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Our understanding of the recolonization of northwest Europe in the period leading up to the Lateglacial Interstadial relies heavily on discoveries from Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK). Gough's Cave is the richest Late Upper Palaeolithic site in the British Isles, yielding an exceptional array of human remains, stone and organic artefacts, and butchered ...
Silvia M. Bello +2 more
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, 2013 An outsider’s perspective of the Spanish funerary process and the universal grappling with ...
Delgado, Margarita C.
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The oldest amputation on a Neolithic human skeleton in France [PDF]
, 2007 While 'surgical' practices such as trepanations are well attested since the first stages of the European Neolithic, the amputation of limbs in Prehistoric periods has not been well-documented until the case presented here. The particularly well-
Cecile Buquet-Marcon +2 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.While death remains a popular topic for anthropology, relatively few ethnographic accounts consider the modern bureaucratic processes accompanying it. One such process is public health autopsy, which scholars have largely taken for granted. Existing analysis has regarded it as a form of ‘cultural brokering’ and autopsy reluctance in communities is seen,
David M.R. Orr
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The Mummification of Votive Birds: Past and Present
EXARC Journal, 2014 A mummy is defined as a ‘well-preserved dead body’ (Cockburn, Cockburn and Reyman 1998, 1), achieved by either natural or anthropogenic methods and refers to both human and animal subjects. Mummies achieved through both these methods are found in ancient
Stephanie D. Atherton +1 more
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Phoenician communities in the Roman world: the case of Hispania [PDF]
, 2017 This poster aims to report the conclusions of our PhD thesis, titled The Phoenician communities of the Iberian Peninsula and their integration in the Roman world: an identity perspective.
Machuca Prieto, Francisco
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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Comparing Mummification Processes: Egyptian and Inca
EXARC Journal, 2018 This two-year research project was carried out as part of SUNY Potsdam’s Presidential Scholars program which allows undergraduates to conduct independent research.
Emma J. J. Williams
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From Mounds to Monasteries: A Look at Spiro and Other Centers Through The Use of Metaphor [PDF]
, 2006 Previous study of the extensive and elaborate funerary offerings at the Spiro site have explained their presence by an exchange system with Spiro functioning as a gateway center.
Brooks, Robert L.
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