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Opium trade and use during the Late Bronze Age: Organic residue analysis of ceramic vessels from the burials of Tel Yehud, Israel

open access: yesArchaeometry, 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
wiley   +1 more source

De l’os, de l’ennemi et du divin. Réflexions sur quelques pratiques funéraires tupi-guarani

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj   +1 more source

From William and Mary to William III: Transitioning the Monarchy at the Funeral Rituals of Mary II, 1695

open access: yesRoyal Studies Journal, 2021
When Queen Mary II of England died in December 1694, she left her husband, William III, as her successor, though unlike traditional transition periods after the death of a monarch there was no coronation, only a funeral.
Mark Walker
doaj   +1 more source

Decorating the Neolithic: an Evaluation of the Use of Plaster in the Enhancement of Daily Life in the Middle Pre-pottery Neolithic B of the Southern Levant [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
During the Middle Pre-pottery Neolithic B in the southern Levant the use of lime plaster in both ritual and domestic contexts increased significantly relative to previous periods.
Clarke, Joanne
core   +1 more source

Uloga komande Crvene armije u podizanju grobnih mesta sovjetskih vojnika u Srbiji [PDF]

open access: yesТокови историје, 2019
Based on documents from Russian and Serbian archives, postwar press and literature, this article analyses the involvement of the Soviet military command in memorial construction – building monuments, memorials and cemeteries for the Soviet soldiers who
Milana Živanović
doaj   +1 more source

Warriorhood at the end of the Neolithic in Central Europe. Comparative analysis of warrior traditions in the chosen regional groups of the Corded Ware Culture

open access: yesArheologia Moldovei, 2022
The goal of this paper is to examine the variety of customs associated with celebration and commemoration of warrior virtues among chosen Corded Ware culture communities from western and eastern parts of its ecumene.
Rafał Skryzniecki, Mateusz Cwanliński
doaj   +1 more source

Contribution to the study of the geographical distribution of Pyrenean funerary stone circles (baratze, cromlech) in the western Pyrenees

open access: yesZephyrus, 2016
‘Baratze’ or Pyrenean funerary stone circles, also known as Pyrenean cromlech, are funerary cremation monuments constructed between the Late Bronze Age and the beginning of the Roman period.
Jose Miguel EDESO FITO   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Excavations and the afterlife of a professional football stadium, Peel Park, Accrington, Lancashire: towards an archaeology of football [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Association football is now a multi-billion dollar global industry whose emergence spans the post-medieval to the modern world. With its professional roots in late 19th-century industrial Lancashire, stadiums built for the professionalization of ...
Ayto E.   +19 more
core   +1 more source

Pratiques funéraires dans l’Arabie antique : la nécropole de Thaj

open access: yesBulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, 2022
In north-eastern Arabia, a new phase of settlement expansion began in the 4th-3rd centuries BCE, as the region became a crossroads for trade between southern Arabia, the Indian Ocean, Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean.
Marie Laguardia   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Investigating Social Exclusion in Late Prehistoric Italy: Preliminary Results of the ‘‘IN or OUT’’ Project (PHASE 1) [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +2 more sources

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