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An Archaeometric Approach to Reveal Organic Compounds via GC‐MS Analyses of Two Discovered Incense Burners at Daba Al‐Bayah

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study focuses on two terracotta incense burners discovered in the Daba Al‐Bayah necropolis in the Musandam Peninsula (Oman), associated with an Iron Age collective tomb (LCG‐2). Through gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC‐MS), the organic residues preserved within these artifacts were analyzed to investigate their use and ...
Francesco Genchi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Disappearance of grave goods: changes in burial practices in 14th century Ivanec, Croatia

open access: yes, 2023
The stratified archaeological site of Stari grad (Castle) in Ivanec yielded evidence of continuous human use from antiquity to the 20th century. Among the many traces of human activity in the area, the systematic archaeological excavations mostly focused
Sirovica, Filomena, Belaj, Juraj
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Wari Lithic Technology on the Northern Coast of the Andes: Geochemical, 2D Geometric Morphometric, and Technological Analyses of Obsidian Bifaces From San José de Moro

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines Wari obsidian production in a cache of 39 bifaces found at the Late Moche site of San José de Moro (Jequetepeque Valley, North Coast of Peru, 700–850 ad). Portable X‐ray fluorescence, geometric morphometric, and technological analyses were used to investigate raw material provenance and bifacial production.
Antonio Pérez‐Balarezo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A biocultural approach to identity in the early Anglo-Saxon inhumation and cremation rite

open access: yes, 2012
The construction of identities continues to attract a significant amount of attention in Anglo-Saxon mortuary archaeology, in particular the expression of the life cycle and gender in the inhumation rite.
SQUIRES, Kirsty
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Learning Across the Divide: Understanding Knowledge Sharing Through Petrographic Analysis on Ceramics From the Rhine‐Meuse Delta During the Middle to Late Neolithic Transition (3400–2200 bce)

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Vlaardingen (VL) communities on the Dutch West coast (3400–2200 bce) are part of a unique, long‐term continuity in the European Neolithic. Despite large‐scale changes in European populations during the Neolithic, the genomic diversity and cultural practices of VL communities can be retraced to the Mesolithic.
Jisca de Bruin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Un/Learning Adult Frames of Reference in Death Enquiries: Thinking~With a Picturebook, Philosophical Animism and Ontological Tact

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Developmental psychology continues to shape how adults engage with children about death and dying. This influences whether children are included in rituals surrounding human and other‐than‐human bodies. Figurations of the innocent, immature and vulnerable child still dominate adult imaginaries of young children's understandings of mortality ...
Karin Murris   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Death in Children's Lives: Reimagining Death Literacy in Childhood

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Children encounter death in everyday life, through family, peers, media, and health care. Opportunities for meaningful engagement with death‐related topics are limited. In this article, we reimagine death literacy—the knowledge and skills needed to navigate dying, death, and bereavement—through a child‐centred, social constructionist lens ...
Anne‐Sofie Nyström, Rakel Eklund
wiley   +1 more source

Archaeology of death in the "portuguese" Gharb: almocavares and other funerary records

open access: yes, 2018
Dissertação de Mestrado em Arqueologia e Território apresentada à Faculdade de LetrasO conhecimento sobre as necrópoles islâmicas no território do Al-andalus, esubsequentemente no gharb “português”, é bastante incipiente e parco, vinculado a umamera ...
Gonzaga, Ana Raquel
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Death, Grief and Collective Care in the Materialist Spirituality of a Forest Preschool

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In a time when material reality appears disconnected from the spiritual world and meaning is sought through overconsumption of the Earth's material sphere, this study explores how death and grief are narrated as part of the ‘stories of the land’ that unite the material and spiritual worlds in a forest preschool in southeastern Finland ...
Emma Kurenlahti   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Burial of a Man-At-Arms in Kudash I Burial Ground

open access: yesПоволжская археология, 2017
The article features a comprehensive analysis of items discovered in male burial 160 of Kudash I burial ground – a unique source of materials for the research of interactions between the local and foreign population on the Middle Kama region in 3rd – 5th
Kazantseva Olga A. , Nagiev Zaur Sh.
doaj   +1 more source

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