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Cemeteries and Funerary Practice
2014This chapter applies and attempts to contribute to the funerary process method of investigating late Iron Age and Roman period mortuary ritual in Britain. In this approach, evidence derived from archaeological contexts including tombstones and monuments, possible cemetery surfaces, cemetery boundaries, burials, pyre sites, and other features is ...
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Funerary Practices in England and Wales
2018This book is an essential reference resource for policy-makers, practitioners and academics with an interest in any aspect of funerary practice in England and Wales.
Julie Rugg, Brian Parsons
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McDonaldization, Islamic Teachings, and Funerary Practices in Kuwait
OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying, 2011Drawing on George Ritzer's sociological concept of McDonaldization, this article explores the transformation of burial practices in Kuwait. It is argued that traditional, religious, and private ways of dealing with death have been modernized using the fast-food model of McDonald's.
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The UAQ2 Graveyard – Biological anthropology and funerary practices
This chapter (2) deliver a description of the 2 tombs excavated i by the French archaological mission in the United arab emirates . One of them is a collective grave (with four decesead interred simultaneously) below the level previously reached by Phillips and Treveil in the 1990'.Sophie, Mery +2 more
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The Archaeological Study of Funerary Practices
1996The funerary remains of past cultures have long exerted a strong attraction on students of prehistory. Funerary sites typically are not only a rich source of intact and often exotic artifacts, but they also represent one of the few archaeological contexts in which we have direct access to specific individuals from the past. The individual may be a very
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Ancient Egyptian funerary practices
The ancient world online, 2009Author in this paper describes changes in the ancient Egyptian funerary practices from the Third intermediate period to the Arab conquest of Egypt. Article is well document with the texts of ancient writers and various archaeological sources (artefacts kept in various museums, tombs etc.).
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Inca Funerary Practices (ca. 1400–1532): A First Assessment on the Basis of Archaeological Data
Ñawpa Pacha, 2022Amandine Flammang
exaly