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The paper reviews a group of five Early Medieval necropolises on the territories of modern-day Northeast Bulgaria and Southeast Romania, which demonstrate some intriguing features.
Vladimir Staykov
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Grave Goods in Early Medieval Europe: regional variability and decline
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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In regards to the Human Remains Unearthed from Akyurt Kalaba Tumulus
Akyurt Kalaba Tumulus, which is located in the Akyurt District of Ankara was excavated by the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in 2012. During the excavation, a burial chamber, which contained the dromos, the anterior chamber and the main chamber, was ...
Ali Metin Büyükkarakaya
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FIRST AMS 14C DATING OF BRONZE AND PRE-ROMAN IRON AGE CREMATED BONES FROM BARROWS IN WESTERN LITHUANIA: RESULTS AND INTERPRETATION [PDF]
Whilst the practice of cremation first emerged and spread in the East Baltic region during the 2ndâ1st millennium BC, non-cremation burials in both barrows and flat cemeteries continued to exist in parallel or the inhumation custom was first replaced ...
Lijana Muradian
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Discovered in 1927 and partially excavated in 1934, 1936, 1937, and for the last time in 2012, the Lailly Au-delà de l’Eau (Yonne) cemetery was sporadically occupied from the early 4th century to the early 1st century BC.
Luc Baray
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The tongue-tied dead: burials and cemetries as a source for sociocultural change in the south-east of Britain at the turn of the new era [PDF]
The article examines pre-Roman necropolis and burials of early Roman Britain and attempts to estimate their informational importance for studies of the socio-cultural changes taken place on the island in the 1st century B. C. – 1st century.
Anton Yeraluevich Barushnikov
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The study considers the metal artefacts in a graveyard discovered by chance at the end of the 19th century and the remains of inhumation graves excavated in 1978 in the same location. Despite the lack of surviving information, the artefacts found allow a
Luc Baray
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This paper draws a chronological timeline comparing burial customs and construction traditions in the cradle of Christian religion, and pagan traditions on the Eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, precisely Lithuania, since the early ages of Christianity (1c.
Eglė Bazaraitė, Teresa Heitor
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Connecting existing cemeteries saving good soils (for livings) [PDF]
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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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.
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