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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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Funerary Practices

, 2023
A detailed analysis of the funerary practices in the Etruscan city of Marzabotto, which are only scarcely known. However, what survives is a really extraordinary phenomenon and a dramatically important evidence to reconstruct rites and ...
C. Pizzirani
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De la détection des structures fugaces à la reconnaissance d’un système funéraire : les fosses à résidus de combustion de l’âge du Bronze

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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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, Annie Verbanck-Piérard   +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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People, dogs and wild game: evidence of human-animal relations from Middle Neolithic burials and personal ornaments in northern Italy

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, Paola Mazzieri, Roberto Micheli   +2 more
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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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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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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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