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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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De l’os, de l’ennemi et du divin. Réflexions sur quelques pratiques funéraires tupi-guarani
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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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
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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]
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
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Uloga komande Crvene armije u podizanju grobnih mesta sovjetskih vojnika u Srbiji [PDF]
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
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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
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‘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
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Excavations and the afterlife of a professional football stadium, Peel Park, Accrington, Lancashire: towards an archaeology of football [PDF]
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
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Pratiques funéraires dans l’Arabie antique : la nécropole de Thaj
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
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Investigating Social Exclusion in Late Prehistoric Italy: Preliminary Results of the ‘‘IN or OUT’’ Project (PHASE 1) [PDF]
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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