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Une approche archéologique des cimetières juifs médiévaux en Europe
The study of the funerary spaces of Jewish communities was initiated in the 1980s in France by Bernard Blumenkranz and Gérard Nahon with the constitution of a CNRS research team, the "New Jewish Gallia".
Philippe Blanchard
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Shabtis of Egyptian Officers from the Late Period in the Collections of the Institute of Classical Archaeology in Prague [PDF]
The Institute of Classical Archaeology in Prague hosts a small collection of Egyptian antiquities. It includes four funerary figurines, termed “shabtis” in Egyptian archaeology, that originate in the funerary equipment of two Egyptian officers of the ...
Pavel Onderka
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The majority of ancient Maya funerary contexts, at least those reported by archaeology, are residential in nature. This cultural specificity, while it renders the excavation process more complex, establishes a link between the grave and the surrounding ...
Hemmamuthé Goudiaby +1 more
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Renouvellement des représentations de l’âge du Bronze en Bretagne
Favoured by the development of preventive archaeology and policies of legal decision adopted by the SRA in Brittany, the multiplication of discoveries and operations focusing on the Bronze Age has transformed our knowledge of domestic settlements and ...
Stéphane Blanchet
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Recent methodological advances in archaeology, and preventive archaeology in particular, have prompted new interest in studies of Iron Age societies through their funerary practices.
Elodie Caserta +2 more
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Dynamic 3D model for decoding archaeological complexity of funerary contexts
Archaeological contexts are extremely dynamic, undergoing changes over time that profoundly alter the archaeological record, both due to intentional human manipulation and natural degradation phenomena. These post-depositional phenomena distort our perception of ancient contexts, often making it difficult to recognize the original arrangement and to ...
Francesca Adesso +2 more
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ABSTRACT Rain‐induced erosion processes can severely damage Earthen archaeological sites. Huaca Chornancap (HCH; eighth–14th century ad) is a platform located in the Lambayeque region (Peru) exposed to seasonal rain due to El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO).
Luigi Magnini +5 more
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ABSTRACT Burial mounds are key elements of Mediterranean funerary landscapes, but in intensively cultivated coastal plains their low‐relief expression is easily obscured by ploughing, levelling and rapidly changing surface conditions, making single‐date observations unreliable.
Salvatore Polverino +2 more
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This paper discuses the conceptualisation of ‘partible’ and ‘permeable’ dividual personhood in archaeology. It focuses on flows of substances as media which produce relations with others and are used in altering the composition of the person according to
Mihael Budja
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Death remains a fascinating and challenging issue for archaeological research. Sometimes, however, it is astonishing how rationally and unemotionally archaeologists and anthropologists approach it.
Dominik Bonatz
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