A snapshot of Late Mesolithic life through death: An appraisal of the lithic and osseous grave goods from the Castelnovian burial of Mondeval de Sora (Dolomites, Italy). [PDF]
PLoS One, 2020 The Late Mesolithic in Southern Europe is dated to the 7th and the first part of the 6th millennia BCE and is marked by profound changes which are mostly evident in the technical know-how and tool-kit of the last hunter-fisher-gatherer societies.
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Towards a new osteometric method for sexing ancient cremated human remains. Analysis of Late Bronze Age and Iron Age samples from Italy with gendered grave goods. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2019 Sex estimation of human remains is one of the most important research steps for physical anthropologists and archaeologists dealing with funerary contexts and trying to reconstruct the demographic structure of ancient societies. However, it is well known
Cavazzuti C +4 more
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Grave Goods in Early Medieval Europe: regional variability and decline
Internet Archaeology, 2021 This article analyses the use of grave goods in burials across early medieval Europe and how that use changed over the course of the 6th to 8th centuries CE with the widespread transition to unfurnished burial.
Emma Brownlee
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Identification, Geochemical Characterisation and Significance of Bitumen among the Grave Goods of the 7th Century Mound 1 Ship-Burial at Sutton Hoo (Suffolk, UK). [PDF]
PLoS One, 2016 The 7th century ship-burial at Sutton Hoo is famous for the spectacular treasure discovered when it was first excavated in 1939. The finds include gold and garnet jewellery, silverware, coins and ceremonial armour of broad geographical provenance which ...
Burger P +4 more
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Multiproxy study reveals equality in the deposition of flaked lithic grave goods from the Baltic Stone Age cemetery Zvejnieki (Latvia). [PDF]
PLoS ONEThe Stone Dead Project carried out analysis of the flaked lithic assemblages from burial contexts at Zvejnieki cemetery, Latvia. Zvejnieki (c. 7500-2500 cal.
Anđa Petrović +6 more
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Children’s burials of the Alakul Culture in the Southern Trans-Urals: reconstruction of age groups [PDF]
Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2023 The proposed study concerns the Alakul Culture whose sites are located in the forest-steppe and steppe zone of the Southern Trans-Urals and are dated to the 18th–17th cc. cal BC.
Berseneva N.A.
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Preliminary considerations and notes on the Sarmatian burial remains of Timișoara – „Hladik 1” (Timiș county) [PDF]
Cercetări Arheologice, 2022 The 2019-2020 archaeological research resulted in the discovery, near Timișoara, at site Hladik 1, of a Sarmatae cemetery of which 139 burials have been investigated, some encircled by a ditch.
Vitalie Bârcă +3 more
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Поволжская археология, 2022 The study concerns children’s burials of the Srubnaya culture (Bronze Age, the South Urals). The assumption that grave goods are related to the gender and age of the dead and may also reflect the stages of growing up of children and their inclusion in ...
Berseneva Natalia A.
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Exploring prehistoric plant use by molecular analyses of Neolithic grave goods
Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 2023 At the site of Grotta Mora Cavorso (Lazio, Italy), an unusual archaeological find, made of two coarse pottery vessels, was recovered from burial levels radiocarbon dated to 6,405–6,275 bp .
A. D’Agostino +4 more
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Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology, 2023 The spatial patterns and grave good associations at the cemetery of Vedrovice – Široká u Lesa (Czech Republic) are explored using computationally intensive formal methods.
Petr Pajdla
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