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2018
Abstract This chapter surveys burial practices across Iron Age Europe, working outwards from the Circum-Alpine zone. During this period, only a fraction of the population was formally buried, in varying proportions over time and space. These were generally members of the political, economic, and religious elite, as is most clear in the ...
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Abstract This chapter surveys burial practices across Iron Age Europe, working outwards from the Circum-Alpine zone. During this period, only a fraction of the population was formally buried, in varying proportions over time and space. These were generally members of the political, economic, and religious elite, as is most clear in the ...
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FUNERARY MONUMENTS AND FUNERARY RITES IN LATE ANTIQUE AQUITAINE
Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 1986Summary.Within the major groups of late Roman sarcophagi and especially of late Gallic sarcophagi (those of Arles and Marseille), the sarcophagi of Aquitaine stand apart in both shape and style. This study traces the broad lines of their stylistic evolution from direct imitations of shape and decoration of the Arelasian models to the fully developed ...
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2020
While among the most iconic of all Egyptian antiquities, funerary equipment was subject to little substantive study until the 1970s. As a result there was limited understanding of the typology and chronology of even such ubiquitous objects as coffins, resulting in casual mis-datings of up to a millennium in some extreme cases.
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While among the most iconic of all Egyptian antiquities, funerary equipment was subject to little substantive study until the 1970s. As a result there was limited understanding of the typology and chronology of even such ubiquitous objects as coffins, resulting in casual mis-datings of up to a millennium in some extreme cases.
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2019
This chapter explores the funerary rites in the Phoenician-Punic world from a comprehensive point of view, and it focuses on the common points arising from a large amount of data. The concern for burying their deceased and the belief in the soul’s afterlife show that the Phoenicians considered death as a transformation rather than as the end of a ...
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This chapter explores the funerary rites in the Phoenician-Punic world from a comprehensive point of view, and it focuses on the common points arising from a large amount of data. The concern for burying their deceased and the belief in the soul’s afterlife show that the Phoenicians considered death as a transformation rather than as the end of a ...
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2018
During the rescue excavations in 2007, a pit containing human skeletal remains was found at Potočani in Croatia. The remains of at least 41 person of all age groups and both sexes were found, mostly articulated but commingled and without a clear pattern of organization. No associated artefacts were present in the pit except for few pottery fragments of
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During the rescue excavations in 2007, a pit containing human skeletal remains was found at Potočani in Croatia. The remains of at least 41 person of all age groups and both sexes were found, mostly articulated but commingled and without a clear pattern of organization. No associated artefacts were present in the pit except for few pottery fragments of
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