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Historical trajectories and individual lives: cultural and isotopic approaches to funerary contexts at Naachtun (Guatemala)

Journal de la Société des Américanistes
In the analysis of funerary practices, burials that deviate from apparent standards always attract particular attention. In the Maya area, due to the regional variability of these practices, it may be tempting to attribute such anomalies to individuals ...
Hemmamuthé Goudiaby, Carolyn Freiwald, Julien Hiquet, Julien Sion, Philippe Nondédéo   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

125 years of exploration and research at Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK) 125 ans d'exploration et de recherches à Gough's Cave (Somerset, Royaume‐Uni)

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Our understanding of the recolonization of northwest Europe in the period leading up to the Lateglacial Interstadial relies heavily on discoveries from Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK). Gough's Cave is the richest Late Upper Palaeolithic site in the British Isles, yielding an exceptional array of human remains, stone and organic artefacts, and butchered ...
Silvia M. Bello, Mark D. Lewis, Simon A. Parfitt   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
wiley   +1 more source

‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
wiley   +1 more source

‘Enthusiasts’ and ‘Fanatics’: The Decembrists as a Case Study in French Influence on Russian Culture, Emotions and Thought

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
wiley   +1 more source

Foundations of ancient Egyptian religion: Fear of death and/or pursuit of order

Шаги
The idea that fear of death forms the basic motivation for cultural and religious practices has gained attention of cognitive science and has been experimentally tested in recent decades. It is now known as the terror management theory (TMT).
E. V. Alexandrova
doaj   +1 more source

‘The Tragedy of a Small Nation’: Alexander Devine and British Perspectives on the Montenegrin Question, 1918–24

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the pro‐Montenegrin political campaigns of Alexander Devine, a schoolmaster and journalist who became Montenegro's leading British advocate following its incorporation into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the First World War.
ROSS CAMERON
wiley   +1 more source

The exceptional finding of Locus 2 at Dehesilla Cave and the Middle Neolithic ritual funerary practices of the Iberian Peninsula. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2020
García-Rivero D, Taylor R, Umbelino C, Price TD, García-Viñas E, Bernáldez-Sánchez E, Pérez-Jordà G, Peña-Chocarro L, Barrera-Cruz M, Gibaja-Bao JF, Díaz-Rodríguez MJ, Monteiro P, Vera-Rodríguez JC, Pérez-González J.   +13 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of a Subsequent Deposition of Human Bodies in a Funerary Site in Sardinia (Italy) Using Entomological Evidence

Heritage
Environmental elements, such as insects, plants, algae and microbes, may provide important information when reconstructing and interpreting past events.
Fabiola Tuccia, Consuelo Rodriguez, Giorgia Giordani, Maria Eulàlia Subirà, Vittorio Mazzarello, Stefano Vanin   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source