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Reinterpreting the Funerary Rites of the Mediaeval Necropolis at Trnjane in the Light of Taphonomic Processes

open access: yesEtnoantropološki Problemi
The Mediaeval necropolis at Trnjane, in today’s eastern Serbia, was excavated during the 1970s and the results were published in the 1980s. Based on the material recovered from the graves, it was concluded that the necropolis was used from the end of ...
Nevena Pantić
doaj   +1 more source

Horses for the dead: funerary foodways in Bronze Age Kazakhstan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
© 2011 Antiquity PublicationsThe authors examine the role of horses as expressed in assemblages from settlement sites and cemeteries between the Eneolithic and the Bronze Age in Kazakhstan.
Evershed, Richard P.   +5 more
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Exploring the Swimming and Water Safety Behaviour Among Indian and Vietnamese Adults in Australia

open access: yesHealth Promotion Journal of Australia, Volume 37, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Issue Addressed From 2011 to 2021, drowning caused over 2.5 million preventable deaths, with Asia carrying the highest burden of drowning deaths. India and Vietnam are among the top 10 birth countries of people who drown in Australia. This study aimed to understand how Asian adults living in Australia develop health literacy in relation to ...
Lian Low   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Late Islamic Cemeteries Within the Cathedral (15th–18th Century CE) and the Ruins of Adulis (Mid-19th–Early 20th Century CE), Massawa, Eritrea: Funerary Architecture, Funerary Rituals, Burial Rites, and Bioarcheological Data Identifying Late Islamic Graves in Central Eastern Eritrea

open access: yesHeritage
Systematic studies on Late Islamic cemeteries that integrate architectural, ritual, and biological aspects remain relatively rare, particularly in Islamic countries or regions with an active Muslim presence.
Omar Larentis   +9 more
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The Oldest Traces of Alcoholic Beverages in the Border Zone of the North and East European Plains

open access: yesArchaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 2, Page 153-172, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Analysis of organic compounds preserved on pottery from the Bell Beaker community and the initial phase of the Trzciniec Cultural Sphere in the border zone of the Eastern and North European Plains was prompted by traces of alcoholic beverages found in contextually and formally analogous discoveries of more westerly provenance.
Dariusz Manasterski   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Redefining closeness: Family resilience after sibling loss among individuals who had siblings with disabilities

open access: yesFamily Relations, Volume 75, Issue 2, Page 1201-1219, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Objective This qualitative study examined the experiences of individuals who had lost a sibling with a disability through a family resilience framework. Background Sibling relationships in families of individuals with disabilities are complex, with siblings often assuming caregiving roles and experiencing emotional strain.
Minhae Cho   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quality of Dying Among Institutionalised Nursing Home Residents From the Caregivers' Perspective: A Mixed‐Methods Study

open access: yesJournal of Advanced Nursing, Volume 82, Issue 4, Page 3726-3739, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Aims To examine how family caregivers of deceased nursing home residents scored and justified their ratings for each item on the Quality of Dying in Long‐Term Care scale and to identify the consistencies and discrepancies between their perceptions and the scores assigned when assessing the residents' end‐of‐life experience. Design A convergent
Daniel Puente‐Fernandez   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Migration and Identity: A Comparative Study of Funeral Ritual Cultures among the Hmong and Miao in the Sichuan–Yunnan–Guizhou Border Region, China [PDF]

open access: yesHmong Studies Journal
Funeral traditions among the Miao people worldwide exhibit notable commonalities despite regional variations in form and ritual, collectively reflecting a shared Miao conception of personhood.
CAI Wei
doaj  

The Changing Features and Functions of Funeral Art Forms in Ibibio Land of Nigeria [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Ibibio funeral art form has developed with the ethnic belief system of ancestral veneration. It has been marked with distinctive indigenization of spatial symbolization of forms to the creation of “nwommo” and cement tomb stone in their quest for ...
E. Umoanwan, Uwem, Nyah, Anselem A.
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