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Enterramientos infantiles en las necrópolis tardoantiguas y medievales de Humanejos (Parla, Madrid) [PDF]
Munibe Antropologia-Arkeologia, 2019 A continuación se presentan los resultados relativos a las tumbas con individuos no-adultos halladas en tres necrópolis del yacimiento de Humanejos (Parla, Madrid): la más antigua datada en época tardoantigua, otra medieval islámica y una tercera ...
Ana Mercedes Herrero Corral +4 more
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Man against death: Identity, language, technology
RUDN journal of Sociology, 2023 The article is a review of the book by D. Davies Death, Ritual, and Belief: The Rhetoric of Funerary Rites (Moscow: NLO, 2022. 480 p.). The author notes the growing interest of society in the phenomenon of death and makes an attempt to systematize the ...
M. V. Subbotina
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Investigating Social Exclusion in Late Prehistoric Italy: Preliminary Results of the ‘‘IN or OUT’’ Project (PHASE 1) [PDF]
, 2014 This report presents the preliminary results of the ‘‘IN or OUT’’ Project, a collaborative, interdisciplinary effort which aims to investigate social exclusion, marginality and the adoption of anomalous funerary rites in late prehistoric Italy.
Perego, E +3 more
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Antiquités Africaines, 2021 As the practice of cremation spread throughout Africa Proconsularis, several localities developed distinctive mortuary customs. Examining three commonly-recognized stages of ritual interaction at these graves (the cremation, the burial, and post-funerary
Jennifer P. Moore, Lea M. Stirling
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Archaeometry, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract Organic residue analysis was conducted on various vessels from burials at Tel Yehud, Israel. The analyses led to new reliable evidence for the presence of opioid alkaloids and their decomposition products. This research revitalizes a decades‐old discussion on the presence and function of the opium trade across a cultural region of utmost ...
Vanessa Linares +5 more
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Tressed for Death in Early Anglo-Saxon England
Internet Archaeology, 2016 A study of hair ornament and styling for funerary rites in Early Anglo-Saxon England. Practices varied between cemeteries and across England in terms of the frequency and character of grooming implements' deposition with the cremated dead.
Howard Williams
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Polyneices’ Body and His Monument: Class, Social Status, and Funerary Commemoration in Sophocles’ Antigone [PDF]
, 2006 There has been much debate about the role of Greek tragedy in questioning and/or affirming values. This paper addresses the broader relationship between theater and society in terms of the ways in which the dead were commemorated in fifth-century Athens.
David Roselli
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Rectangular grave vessels and stamped ceramics from the roman period in the Central Balkans: A contribution to the study of prehistoric traditions during the Roman period [PDF]
Starinar, 2006 This paper discusses the rectangular grave vessels discovered, with cremated human remains, at several Roman period cemeteries in western Bulgaria northeast Macedonia and southeast Serbia. All the cemeteries show similar funerary rites, burial procedures
Bulatović Aleksandar
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Axes in the Funerary Ceremonies of the Northern Pontic Scythians
Arts, 2023 Axes were rare among the Scythians but are occasionally found in Scythian kurgans. Like other weapons, axes had practical as well as social and religious roles.
Marina Daragan, Sergei Polin
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Archéopages, 2012 With the advent, during the Bronze Age, of funerary practices based on cremation rites, types of deposits other than the deposition of burnt bones appear, consisting of residues from fires (e.g. charcoal, ash, heat-altered stones and soil).
Isabelle Le Goff, Ghislaine Billand
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