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Inhumation [PDF]

Encyclopédie berbère, 2001
Dans les temps prehistoriques, les cadavres etaient deposes dans les lieux memes ou le groupe familial poursuivait son existence : rares sont les necropoles comme Afalou-bou-Rhummel ou la pauvrete de l’outillage montre que l’habitat ne se confondait pas avec le lieu sepulcral.
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Investigating Social Exclusion in Late Prehistoric Italy: Preliminary Results of the ‘‘IN or OUT’’ Project (PHASE 1) [PDF]

, 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, Saracino, M, Zamboni, L, Zanoni, V   +3 more
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‘Sons of athelings given to the earth’: Infant Mortality within Anglo-Saxon Mortuary Geography [PDF]

, 2014
FOR 20 OR MORE YEARS early Anglo-Saxon archaeologists have believed children are underrepresented in the cemetery evidence. They conclude that excavation misses small bones, that previous attitudes to reporting overlook the very young, or that infants ...
Adams B, Akerman J Y, Aldsworth F, Annable F K, Blair J, Blair J, Bloch M, Boyle A, Boyle A, Brookes S J, Buckberry J, Campbell J, Cook A M, Corney A, Crawford S, Crawford S, Crawford S, Crawford S, Crawford S, Crawford S, Dickinson T, Down A, Drinkall G, Duncan H, DUNCAN SAYER, Evison V I, Evison V I, Evison V I, Evison V I, Evison V I, Gilchrist R, Glass H, Glenn J, Goody J, Green B, Green B, Hamerow H, Haughton C, Hawkes S C, Hawkes S C, Hawkes S C, Hills C, Hills C, Hirst S, Hunn A, Härke H, Härke H, Jackes M, Kinsley A G, Lee C, Leeds E T, Liddle P, Lucy S, Lucy S, Lucy S, Lyle M, Malim T, Matthews C L, Merbs C, Murray A C, Musty J, Pader E-J, Parfitt K, Parfitt K, Pasternak B, Penn K, Penn K, Perkins D R J, Ravn M, Richardson A, Sayer D, Sayer D, Scheschkewitz J, Scheuer L, Seebohn F, Semple S, Shennan S, Sherlock S J, Stenton F, Stoodley N, Thompson V, Timby J, UNICEF, WHO, World Bank, UN Population Division, Van Gennep A, Warhurst A, West S E, Whitelock D, Williams H, Williams P, York B   +89 more
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Connecting existing cemeteries saving good soils (for livings) [PDF]

, 2020
Background: Urban sprawl consumes and degrades productive soils worldwide. Fast and safe decomposition of corpses requires high-quality functional soils, and land use which competes with both agriculture and buildings.
Pantani O.-L., Scalenghe R.
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Is the Mesolithic-Neolithic Subsistence Dichotomy Real? New Stable Isotope Evidence from the Danube Gorges [PDF]

, 2004
The article presents new results of stable isotope analyses made on animal and human bones from the Mesolithic-early Neolithic sites of Lepenski Vir and Vlasac in the Danube Gorges of the Balkans.
Borić, Dušan, Grupe, Gisela, Mikić, Živko, Peters, Joris   +3 more
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Inhumations préhistoriques en Nouvelle-Calédonie [PDF]

Journal de la société des océanistes, 2001
Les temoignages ethnographiques et la presence d’ossements humains deconnectes en situation secondaire, dont certains dans des poteries utilisees entre le debut et la fin du premier millenaire apres J.-C., permettent de supposer des pratiques funeraires complexes dans les societes prehistoriques de la Nouvelle-Caledonie.
Valentin, Frédérique, Sand, Christophe
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Cremation practices and the creation of monument complexes: the Neolithic cremation cemetery at Forteviot, Strathearn, Perth & Kinross, Scotland, and its comparanda [PDF]

, 2017
Around the beginning of the 3rd millennium cal bc a cremation cemetery was established at Forteviot, central Scotland. This place went on to become one of the largest monument complexes identified in Mainland Scotland, with the construction of a ...
Brophy, Kenneth, Noble, Gordon
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Sex determination of human remains from peptides in tooth enamel [PDF]

, 2017
The assignment of biological sex to archaeological human skeletons is a fundamental requirement for the reconstruction of the human past. It is conventionally and routinely performed on adults using metric analysis and morphological traits arising from ...
Gerlach, Raquel Fernanda, Gowland, Rebecca L., Gron, Kurt J., Montgomery, Janet, Stewart, Nicolas   +4 more
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A preliminary examination of differential decomposition patterns in mass graves [PDF]

, 2014
This study represents a preliminary, quantitative approach to the examination of differential decomposition patterns in mass graves. Five pairs of mass graves, each containing the carcasses of 21 rabbits, were used to examine decomposition rates at four ...
Adlam, Arnold, Arnold, Bachmann, Baraybar, Burns, Carter, Carter, Carter, Cordner, Cross, Dix, Doretti, Fielder, Forbes, Forbes, Galloway, Garland, Gill-King, Greenwood, Haglund, Haglund, Helms, Hunter, Jessee, Johnson, Kaliszan, Kristensen, Mann, Mant, Megyesi, Micozzi, Payne, Pinheiro, R Development Core Team, Reed, Rodriguez, Schroeder, Simmons, Simmons, Skinner, Skinner, Sledzik, Steel, Steele, Tuller, Turner, Vass, Vass, Vass, White, Wilson   +51 more
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A Bronze Age Round Barrow Cemetery, Pit Alignments, Iron Age Burials, Iron Age Copper Working, and Later Activity at Four Crosses, Llandysilio, Powys. [PDF]

, 2016
Excavation undertaken at the Upper Severn valley round barrow cemetery at Four Crosses, Llandysilio between 2004 and 2006 has increased the known barrows and ring-ditches to some 26 monuments, and revealed additional burials.
Anon, Archaeology Cotswold, Aufderheide A. C., Barclay A., Barford P. M., Bass W., Beck C., Bennett K. D., Bourgeois Q., Bowden M., Britnell W. J., Bronk Ramsey C., Brothwell D. R., Buikstra J. E., Bulleid A., Cappers T. R. J., Caseldine A., Caseldine A. E., Caseldine A. E., Cleal R., Colls K., Color Munsell, Darvill T., Fontijn D., Gale R., Gale S. J., Garwood P., Garwood P., Garwood P., Gibson A., Gibson A., Gibson A., Gibson A. M., Godwin H., Grant I., Grinsell L. V., Halsted J., Harding J., Jones A. P., Kaul F., Kaul F., Kinnes I., Kristiansen K., Last J., Le Borgne E., Leary J., Lynch F. M., MacGregor A., Martin A., Martin A. L., McKinley J. L., McKinley J. L., McKinley J. L., McKinley J. L., McSloy E., McSloy E., Milles A., Millson D., Mitchell A., Mizoguchi K., Monckton A., Moore P. D., Mullin D, Musson C. R., Northover J. P., Ortner D. J., Owen G., Peacock D. P. S., Pearson E., Pearson E., Pearson E., Petts D., Pollock K. J., Ray K., Rogers J., Scheuer L., Smith W., Stace C., Tacitus, Thomas C., Tomber R., Tuck M., Tucker M. E., Webster P. V., White R. B., Wigley A., Wilson D. R., Woodward A.   +87 more
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