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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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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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‘There Buds the Laurel’: Nature, Temporality and the Making of Place in the Cemeteries of Roman Italy [PDF]
, 2018 Using the necropolis environments of the Vesuvian region of Imperial period Italy as a case study, this paper examines the ways in which multiple, overlapping, and temporally specific senses of place were associated with Roman funerary landscapes.
Graham, Emma-Jayne
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Poupées grecques en images : du jeu au rite
Pallas, 2022 Representations of jointed dolls have been identified until now on Attic funerary stelae only, apart from one white-ground Attic lekythos.
Véronique Dasen +1 more
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De l’os, de l’ennemi et du divin. Réflexions sur quelques pratiques funéraires tupi-guarani
Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 2003 Of Bones, enemies and divinities. Reflections on some Tupi-Guarani funerary practices. By underlining the importance of bone in Tupi-Guarani myth and ritual, this article seeks to demonstrate that bone is not a neutral substance, and that the different ...
Olivier Allard
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Documenta Praehistorica, 2010 In order to review evidence of human-animal relations, the paper offers an overview of the customs and funerary traditions of the Square Mouthed Pottery culture, between c. 5000 and 4300 calBC.
Maria Bernabò Brea +2 more
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Transmission and Mortal Anxiety in the Tale of Aqhat [PDF]
, 2017 Forthcoming in Like ʾIlu Are You Wise: Studies in Northwest Semitic Languages and Literature in Honor of Dennis G.
Jacqueline Vayntrub
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La mort vivante ou le corps intercesseur (société maure-islam malékite)
Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 2006 In this article, images and practices related to death are examined through a reading of Islamic scriptural sources as well as through their inscription in a specific society, the Moorish society of Mauritania.
Corinne Fortier
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THE STORY OF A FUNERAL HOME: RITUAL MODERNIZATION AND ITS RECEPTION IN A TRANSYLVANIAN VILLAGE COMMUNITY [PDF]
Revista Română de Sociologie, 2016 The paper offers a brief re-study of funerary rituals in a village inhabited by Hungarian Roman Catholics in Romania. Since the completion of long-term fieldwork there in 2003 and 2004, the construction of a funeral home and the emergence of local ...
AGNES HESZ
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Un mausolée circulaire en contexte suburbain à Narbonne/Narbo Martius (Aude)
Gallia, 2019 The discovery of a circular monument during the rescue excavation of the Hôtel-Dieu in Narbonne, in 1996, allowed archaeologists to reassess the question of monumental funerary architecture in the capital of Narbonnaise Gaul.
Olivier Ginouvez, Sandy Gualandi
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