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Urbanism and North American Funerary Practices

open access: yesMcNair Scholars Online Journal, 2006
Urbanism is a way of life for those who reside in a densely inhabited area with a heterogeneous human population. The diversity of cultures, worldviews and practices found in urban areas combine in a form of cultural mixing. The urban amalgamation of cultures raises the question of how urban dwellers process their dead.
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The Caddo Archaeological Record in the Saline Creek and County Line Creek Valleys in Cherokee and Smith Counties, Texas [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Both the Saline and County Line creeks in the upper Neches River basin were habitats where significant numbers of Caddo peoples lived in ancestral times.
Nelson, Bo   +2 more
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The Christian Agape Meal : A manifestation of Koinonia and Diakonia. The contribution of Adalbert-Gautier Hamman [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This study investigates the first and second-century Christian agape meal as an expression of two central facets in the life and mission of the earliest Christian communities, koinonia and diakonia.
Scerri, Hector
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Cuerpos, arquitectura y memoria: prácticas funerarias como mediaciones entre ocupaciones post-Chavín en el corredor C-D de Chavín de Huántar

open access: yesBulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines
Chavín de Huántar was one of the main ceremonial centers during the Formative period, and although its process of abandonment is still debated, there is clear evidence of ritual and architectural reoccupations by later groups such as the Huarás, Mariash ...
Lisseth Rojas-Pelayo, John W. Rick
doaj   +1 more source

Introduction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The seminars entitled Palaeography Between East & West, which I convened at Sapienza University, aimed at offering a forum, a place of sharing knowledge and debate, to scholars who deal with manuscript materials in various languages and alphabets ...
D'Ottone, Arianna
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Mortuary styles and modes of sociability in nineteenth-century Brazilian cemeteries

open access: yesHorizontes Antropológicos, 2010
The analytical focus of this work is the social treatment meted out to the dead and burial forms in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. How might one read and understand the attitudes and social meanings of a given time from its system of ...
Antonio Motta
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Les sarcophages de plâtre d’Allonnes (Eure-et-Loir) : un enrichissement de la chrono-typologie funéraire régionale

open access: yesRevue Archéologique du Centre de la France, 2017
A rescue excavation in the village of Allonnes (Eure-et-Loir) led to the discovery of a portion of a large Merovingian necropolis, as well as several smaller groups of tombs located in its periphery.
Sacha Kacki, François Capron
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Funerary practices of cremation at the megalithic societies of South-Eastern Iberia: The cemetery of Los Milanes. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One
Becerra Fuello P   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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