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Premières données sur le matériel céramique de la nécropole mégalithique de Wanar (Sénégal)

Afrique Archéologie Arts, 2011
Excavations conducted since 2005 on the megalithic necropolis of Wanar, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, have already contributed to point out the complexity of funeral practices and of architectural remains.
Adrien Delvoye, Luc Laporte, Hamady Bocoum, Jean-Paul Cros, Mahmoud Diallo, Vincent Dartois, Mathieu Lejay, Laurent Quesnel, Francis Bertin   +8 more
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Jaina afterlife beliefs and funerary practices [PDF]

, 2017
Jaina metaphysics is dualistic. Living beings are regarded as products of the amalgamation of the immortal substances, soul and matter. From the point of view of Jaina doctrine, the approaching disintegration of a gross body is not a calamity, but an opportunity.
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From Mounds to Monasteries: A Look at Spiro and Other Centers Through The Use of Metaphor [PDF]

, 2006
Previous study of the extensive and elaborate funerary offerings at the Spiro site have explained their presence by an exchange system with Spiro functioning as a gateway center.
Brooks, Robert L.
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Decorating the Neolithic: an Evaluation of the Use of Plaster in the Enhancement of Daily Life in the Middle Pre-pottery Neolithic B of the Southern Levant [PDF]

, 2012
During the Middle Pre-pottery Neolithic B in the southern Levant the use of lime plaster in both ritual and domestic contexts increased significantly relative to previous periods.
Clarke, Joanne
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Traitements non funéraires du cadavre : questions méthodologiques, identification archéologique et pistes interprétatives

Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris
Many studies have addressed the issue of deviance from a funerary "norm", focusing on specific chronological periods. But the absence of any funerary treatment is underestimated in archaeological contexts and still unexplored, even though it may ...
Aurore Schmitt, Élisabeth Anstett, Aurélien Baroiller, Reine-Marie Bérard, Bruno Boulestin, Alexia Lattard, Hélène Ménard, Catherine Rigeade   +7 more
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L’apport de l’archéologie préventive dans la recherche des vestiges du judaïsme : l’exemple des pratiques funéraires

Archéopages, 2012
Historians have long studied the place of Jewish communities in medieval society but it is only since the 1980s that archaeologists have tried to study the material remains of Judaism still present on French soil.
Philippe Blanchard, Patrice Georges, Daniel Parent   +2 more
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Huaca Amarilla, un espace funéraire andin unique dédié à l’inhumation de fœtus, de nouveau-nés, de nourrissons et de jeunes enfants du IXe au XVe siècle (Désert de Sechura, Pérou)

Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, 2022
The Huaca Amarilla site, in the Sechura Desert in northern Peru, has yielded a singular burial complex from between the 9th and the 15th century CE.
Lucie Dausse, Elise Dufour, Christine Lefèvre, Clarissa Cagnato, Belkys Gutiérrez, Segundo Vásquez, Nicolas Goepfert   +6 more
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The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology: Characters and Collections [PDF]

, 2015
The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology first opened its doors in 1915, and since then has attracted visitors from all over the world as well as providing valuable teaching resources. Named after its founder, the pioneering archaeologist Flinders Petrie,
Stevenson, AE
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Au contact de nos morts

Géographie et Cultures, 2020
After nearly two centuries of stable funeral practices in France, the transition at work since the 1960s takes a new turn in recent years as cremation is becoming a majority practice and the ecological transition requires profound changes (ecological ...
Pascaline Thiollière
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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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