Dogs in Funerary Practices of the Murong Xianbei
Problems of Archaeology, Ethnography, Anthropology of Siberia and Neighboring Territories, 2021 The article analyzes the evidence on the role of dogs in the funeral rite of the Murongs — one of the Xianbei tribes which inhabited Southern Manchuria in the 3rd—5th centuries AD. It has been established that despite the reports of Chinese written sources on burning the sacrificial animals during the funeral ritual, the early Xianbi also had a ...
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Fatal lightning strikes in Ireland from newspaper records 1900–2024
Weather, EarlyView.This study presents a chronology of fatal lightning strikes in Ireland (1900–2024) derived from digitised newspaper archives. Analysis provides insights into the seasonality, location, victim activity and synoptic conditions (from Lamb weather types) of 94 fatal events causing 113 deaths.
Rory Moore, Conor Murphy, Rowan Fealy
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A Phoenician Way to be Roman [PDF]
, 2017 This paper offers a synthesis on my dissertation, 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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Vibrational spectroscopy to study ancient Roman funerary practices at the "Hypogeum of the Garlands" (Italy). [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2022 Festa G +8 more
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With a Great Story Comes Great Responsibility: Role of Narrative in Leadership Development
New Directions for Student Leadership, Volume 2025, Issue 185, Page 81-87, Spring 2025.ABSTRACT Comic books reside uniquely within American culture. Historians have contended comics are more than just sequential artwork mixed with engaging stories, but rather, a framework by which the generations make sense of who they are. These stories are a reflection of cultural conscience; a lens through which we can view the world and a mirror ...
Sean Connable
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Minou Schraven, Festive Funerals in Early Modern Italy: The Art and Culture of Conspicuous Commemoration (Farnham and Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 2014), xviii + 320 pp., 13 tables, 51 b/w illustrations. ISBN: 978-0-7546-6524-3. Price £70 (hardback) [PDF]
, 2015 No abstract ...
Richards, John
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A traitor's death? The identity of a drawn, hanged and quartered man from Hulton Abbey, Staffordshire [PDF]
, 2008 Analysis of a set of bones redeposited in a medieval abbey graveyard showed that the individual had been beheaded and chopped up, and this in turn suggested one of England's more gruesome I execution practices. Since quartering was generally reserved for
Lewis, Mary Elizabeth
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The polymorphism and tradition of funerary practices of medieval Turks in light of new findings from Tuva Republic. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2022 Chan A +4 more
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Work of a Nation: Christian Funerary Ecumenism and Institutional Disruption in Swaziland [PDF]
, 2018 This article traces how contemporary funerary practices—foodways, prayer and burial cooperative participation—configure a Christian public culture in Swaziland that draws from ordinary citizens’ religious, ritual and political work and membership in ...
Golomski, Casey
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An infant burial from Arma Veirana in northwestern Italy provides insights into funerary practices and female personhood in early Mesolithic Europe. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2021 Hodgkins J +26 more
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