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Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de ParisMany studies have addressed the issue of deviance from a funerary "norm", focusing on specific chronological periods. But the absence of any funerary treatment is underestimated in archaeological contexts and still unexplored, even though it may ...
Aurore Schmitt +7 more
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The key image of interpretation of funerary rituals A study of ancient Egyptian iconography
Estudios de Teoría Literaria, 2022 In Pharaonic Egypt, the funerary context constitutes a material structure to ensure the life in the Hereafter not only to the deceased, but to the whole community, since it perpetuates its values and behavior patterns through the ritual practices.
Silvana Lorena Yomaha +1 more
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Complexity and coherence [PDF]
, 2012 Leslie Topp traces the emergence of the asylum mortuary as an architectural challenge. Drawing on new archival research, Complexity and Coherence: The Challenge of the Asylum Mortuary in Central Europe, 1898–1908 unpacks the highly fraught combination of
Topp, Leslie
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The Medieval Muslim Cemeteries of Tigray (Ethiopia)
Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 2023 The discovery (or rediscovery) and the archaeological excavation of the medieval Muslim cemetery of Bilet (Tigray, Ethiopia) in 2018, made it possible to study for the first time in the northern highlands of Ethiopia, the funerary architecture and burial
Simon Dorso, Anna Lagaron
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Sheol, the Tomb, and the Problem of Postmortem Existence [PDF]
, 2017 The Hebrew Bible often portrays Sheol in a manner evocative of the tomb. In texts such as Psalm 88 the tomb is a dreary and isolating symbol. Yet this contrasts with the positive role of the family tomb where the dead are reunited with their ancestors ...
Matthew Suriano
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Moussons, 2018 This article reflects on the Javanese view of death, based notably on first-hand accounts of ritual masters, their conceptions and ritual practices. Existing ethnographic literature on Javanese funerary rituals is largely descriptive and delves little ...
Jean-Marc de Grave
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Death embodied. Archaeological approaches to the treatment of the corpse edited by Zoë L Devlin and Emma-Jayne Graham [Book review] [PDF]
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Buckberry, Jo
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Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Carnac alignments in Morbihan (France) are among the most famous Neolithic sites of the world. Paradoxically, they have benefited little from a thorough renewal of archaeological data over the past century. There are many reasons for this, but it is mainly because the site has been regarded more as a monument to visit and protect than as ...
Guillaume Bruniaux +6 more
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Des tombes chasséennes attestées dans le Toulousain
Archéopages, 2012 Up to recently nearly all the burials of the Chasséen culture known from the region of Toulouse were found as secondary burials in structures whose original purpose was not funerary.
Fabrice Pons +2 more
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Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper presents the results of an integrated archaeological and geophysical investigation conducted between 2018 and 2024 at the newly discovered Picenian and Roman necropolis of Contrada Nevola (Corinaldo, Marche, Central Italy), identified in the framework of development‐led archaeology. The research strategy combined aerial photography,
Federica Boschi
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