Burying power: New insights into incipient leadership in the Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic from an outstanding burial at Baʻja, southern Jordan [PDF]
, 2019 In 2016, an extraordinary burial of a young adult individual was discovered at the Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (LPPNB, 7,500–6,900 BCE) settlement of Baʻja in southern Jordan.
Alarashi, Hala +7 more
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Shell and glass beads from the tombs of Kindoki, Mbanza Nsundi, Lower Congo [PDF]
, 2014 The ancient Kingdom of Kongo originated in Central Africa in the 14th century. In the 15th century, the Portuguese organized tight contacts with the Bakongo.
Bostoen, Koen +5 more
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Нижневолжский археологический вестник, 2023 The study concerns the children as one of the social and demographic age groups that formed the early nomads‘ social structure. Burials of two chronological periods were studied: Sauromatian (late 6th – first half of 5th centuries BC) and Early ...
Natalia Berseneva
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The Changing Understanding of North American Archaeology and Native American Heritage [PDF]
, 2011 This article explores the evolving ways in which anthropologists, archaeologists, and the United States government have viewed Native American cultural heritage, especially in terms of burials and grave goods.
Bourgault, Ashley
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The Southern Frontier of the Meroitic State: The View from Jebel Moya [PDF]
, 2014 The site of Jebel Moya, excavated in the early twentieth century, represents arguably the largest pastoral mortuary complex in Africa. Jebel Moya is resituated in relation to the neighbouring Meroitic-era agro-pastoral settlements and the only known ...
Brass, M
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, 2023 ABOUT THE SITE The Institute of Archaeology (Zagreb) has been excavating the stratified site of “Old Town” in the center of Ivanec, a small town in northwestern Croatia, which has yielded evidence of continuous human use from antiquity to the 20th century.
Belaj, Juraj, Sirovica, Filomena
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The oldest amputation on a Neolithic human skeleton in France [PDF]
, 2007 While 'surgical' practices such as trepanations are well attested since the first stages of the European Neolithic, the amputation of limbs in Prehistoric periods has not been well-documented until the case presented here. The particularly well-
Cecile Buquet-Marcon +2 more
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Despre cele două morminte din tell-ul de la Dridu
Materiale și Cercetări Arheologice, 2015 Two inhumation graves (M. 1 and M. 2) were found in 1958, buried inside of a so-called tell, situated north of the medieval settlement. The two funerary structures were briefly described and published without any kind of illustration.
Oța, L., Georgescu, M., Baltă, Z.
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Gifts for the afterlife: Evidence of mortuary practices on the necropolis at Marina el-Alamein [PDF]
, 2011 The paper considers the evidence for mortuary practices in the form of grave accompaniments and grave offerings recorded during excavations of the Graeco-Roman necropolis at Marina el-Alamein.
Zych, Iwona
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Insights on the changing dynamics of cemetery use in the neolithic and chalcolithic of southern Portugal. Radiocarbon dating of Lugar do Canto Cave (Santarém) [PDF]
, 2014 Lugar do Canto Cave is one of the most relevant Neolithic burial caves in Portugal given not only its extraordinary preservation conditions at the time of discovery but also the quality of the field record obtained during excavation. Its material culture
Carvalho, António, Luis Cardoso, Joao
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