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Earliest known funerary rites in Wallacea after the last glacial maximum [PDF]

Scientific Reports
The insular region of Wallacea has become a focal point for studying Pleistocene human ecological and cultural adaptations in island environments, however, little is understood about early burial traditions during the Pleistocene.
Stuart Hawkins, Gabriella Ayang Zetika, Rebecca Kinaston, Yulio Ray Firmando, Devi Mustika Sari, Yuni Suniarti, Mary Lucas, Patrick Roberts, Christian Reepmeyer, Tim Maloney, Shimona Kealy, Claudine Stirling, Malcolm Reid, David Barr, Torsten Kleffmann, Abhishek Kumar, Pratiwi Yuwono, Mirani Litster, Muhammad Husni, Marlon Ririmasse, Mahirta, Muhammad Mujabuddawat, Harriyadi, Sue O’Connor   +23 more
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Holy smoke in medieval funerary rites: chemical fingerprints of frankincense in southern Belgian incense burners. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
Frankincense, the oleogum resin from Boswellia sp., has been an early luxury good in both Western and Eastern societies and is particularly used in Christian funerary and liturgical rites. The scant grave goods in late medieval burials comprise laterally
Jan Baeten, Koen Deforce, Sophie Challe, Dirk De Vos, Patrick Degryse   +4 more
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The Funerary Rites of Won Buddhism in Korea [PDF]

Religions, 2020
Won Buddhism, established in 1916 by Founding Master Sot’aesan (少太山, 1891–1943), is one of the most active new religious movements in South Korea. When Korean society experienced a revolution in terms of values together with a swift transformation at the
Kwangsoo Park
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Re-imagining Funerary Rites in the Context of Covid-19 [PDF]

Pharos Journal of Theology, 2021
Covid-19 has brought about unsuspected possibilities and death on a large global scale since its advent on the shores of the global community in early March of 2020.
Nelson S. Ratau, Ntsofa C. Monyela, Neo R. Mofokeng   +2 more
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An Insight to the Composition of Pre-Hispanic Mayan Funerary Pigments by ¹H-NMR Analysis [PDF]

Molecules, 2021
The funerary rites of particular members of the pre-Hispanic Mayan society included the pigmentation of the corpse with a red color. In order to understand this ritual, it is first necessary to identify the constituents of the pigment mixture and then ...
Kadwin J. Pérez-López, Vera Tiesler, Patricia Quintana, Emanuel Hernández-Nuñez, Gloria I. Hernández-Bolio   +4 more
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Discontinuity of Funerary Rites in Late Praehistory of the Central Balkans

Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2017
Starting from the fact that the present knowledge of the late praehistory of the Central Balkans is based almost exclusively upon interpretations of funerary remains, the aim of this paper is to investigate the theoretical premises of the archaeological ...
Zorica Kuzmanović
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Stone axes throw new light on Baltic stone age mortuary rites [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Despite their ubiquity, Mesolithic lithic tools given as funerary offerings have rarely been studied in detail. Whereas personal ornaments (e.g. beads, pendants) are commonly interpreted as markers of social identity and status, archaeologists have ...
Anđa Petrović, Aija Macāne, Ivars Strautnieks, Laimdota Kalniņa, Elisabeth Holmqvist, Emily M. Hunter, Diederik Pomstra, Helen Goodchild, Ana Harto Villén, Ilga Zagorska, Mark Edmonds, Kerkko Nordqvist, Aimée Little   +12 more
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¿A dónde van los muertos?: las crisis de la muerte y las geografías sagradas en el esquema tripartito de los ritos de paso

Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología, 2022
Within funerary archaeology, contemporary studies on death rites have promoted a series of conceptual needs to understand the commemoration of death and its impact on human sociability from new perspectives.
Juan Pablo Ospina Herrera
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D(is) M(anibus) S(acrum) – AN OVERVIEW OF FUNERARY BEHAVIOURS ON THE TERRITORY OF PRESENT-DAY SWITZERLAND FROM LATE PROTOHISTORY TO EARLY MEDIEVAL TIMES THROUGH THE STUDY OF MATERIAL REMAINS, TEXTUAL SOURCES AND FUNERARY INSCRIPTIONS

Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology, 2021
The present article focuses on funerary behaviours on the territory of present-day Switzerland from the end of the protohistoric period to the early Middle Ages.
Tobias Hofstetter
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Frozen graves of Yakutia, a chronological sequence [PDF]

Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2020
Distribution, cultural and chronological attribution of frozen graves of Yakutia between the beginning of 17th and end of 19th century. The funerary rites and the artefacts allow to differentiate four chrono-cultural periods (before 1700 AD, from 1700 to
Duchesne S. , Bravina R. , Popov V. , Kolodeznikov S. , Gérard P. , Myglan V. , Hochstrasser-Petit Ch. , Romanova L. , Petit M. , Kirianov N. , Alexeev A. , Alekseeva L. , Riberon A. , Crubézy E.   +13 more
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