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Societies in balance: Monumentality and feasting activities among southern Naga communities, Northeast India. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2021
Among various Naga communities of Northeast India, megalithic building and feasting activities played an integral role in the different and intertwined dimensions of social and political organisation until very recently.
Maria Wunderlich, Tiatoshi Jamir, Johannes Müller, Knut Rassman, Ditamulü Vasa   +4 more
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Re-sequencing 142 rice genomes reveals the fine-scale population structure and phylogenetic affinities of landraces of Kashmir Valley: Evidence from domestication and adaptive signatures. [PDF]

Plant Genome
Abstract The emergence of rice (Oryza sativa) as a cultivated crop has represented a landmark in the history of agriculture in Kashmir Valley. Unlike winter cereals, such as wheat and barley, which exhibit clear West‐Asian origins, rice attained a different domestication trajectory linked to East‐Asian Neolithic cultures.
Shikari AB, Reddy VSK, Khan RS, Ul-Ain N, Khan GH, Sofi NU, Dar ZA, Ganai NA, Salgotra RK, Sharma M, Parray GA, Singh AK.   +11 more
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Commentary on Seersholm Et al.: Yersinia pestis Infection Is Not Synonymous With Deadly Plague in Neolithic Scandinavia. [PDF]

Am J Biol Anthropol
ABSTRACT Objectives Emerging genomic evidence has identified ancestral strains of Yersinia pestis in ancient human populations, which has sparked debates about its pathogenic role in later Neolithic societies. Here, we review published evidence linking anthropological and biological data reflecting the past natural history of Y.
Oumarou Hama H, Drancourt M, Slavin P, Sebbane F.   +3 more
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Reconstructing prehistoric lifeways using multi-Isotope analyses of human enamel, dentine, and bone from Legaire Sur, Spain. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
Megalithism has been repetitively tied to specialised herding economies in Iberia, particularly in the mountainous areas of the Basque Country. Legaire Sur, in the uplands of Álava region, is a recently excavated passage tomb (megalithic monument) that ...
Jacob I Griffith, Hannah F James, Javier Ordoño, Teresa Fernández-Crespo, Carina T Gerritzen, Christina Cheung, Rachèl Spros, Philippe Claeys, Steven Goderis, Barbara Veselka, Christophe Snoeck   +10 more
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Identifying Indigenous People's Grieving and Funeral Practices as Components for Establishing a Grief Support Framework: An Integrative Literature Review. [PDF]

J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs
ABSTRACT Introduction Grieving and funeral practices form an integral component of the culture of indigenous people. Although studies on specific indigenous grief support frameworks could not be found, the authors did find certain studies on the grieving and funeral practices of indigenous people.
Felix R, du Plessis E, Jacobs I.
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The Function and Meaning of Megalithic Cultural Heritage in Some Sites in Bantaeng Regency, South Sulawesi

Mozaik Humaniora, 2022
The Bantaeng megalithic site houses megalithic cultural relics, such as terraces (teras berundak), dakon, lumpang batu, menhir, dolmen, stone altars, circular stone (batu temu gelang), tombs, and fences, including fragments of pottery and foreign ...
Rosmawati Rosmawati, Akin Duli, Muhammad Nur, Yusriana Yusriana, Erwin Mansyur Ugu Saraka, Stephen Chia, Khadijah Thahir Muda, Yunus Sauman Sabin, Zuliskandar Ramli, Francis David Bulbeck, Adam Brumm   +10 more
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A Map of European Megaliths

Journal of Neolithic Archaeology, 2023
As part of a request from the “European Megalithic Routes” organization to its Scientific Advisory Board for a comprehensive map of European megaliths, an attempt was made to produce the corresponding map using existing publications on megalithic tombs.
Johannes Müller, Clemens Kruckenberg, Ralph Großmann, Julia Luckner   +3 more
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MEGALITHIC CULTURE IN RAJEKWESI VILLAGE KENDIT DISTRICT SITUBONDO REGENCY

Jurnal Historica, 2022
The purpose of this study is to take an inventory of the number of archaeological remains of megalithic culture and other archaeological. The results of this study are the number of archaeological remains of megalithic culture at the Rajekwesi site, with
Muarafa Nur Afif, Kayan Swastika, Sumarjono Sumarjono, Mohamad Naim, Akhmad Ryan Pratama, Robit Nurul Jamil   +5 more
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Situs Megalitik Tanjung Telang, Kabupaten Lahat: Kajian Bentuk Dan Fungsi.

Diakronika, 2023
This article is entitled Megalithic site Tanjung Telang, Lahat Regency: Study of Form and Function. This article aims to examine the from and function at the Tanjung Telang megalithic site, Lahat Regency, South Sumatra Province.
Tama Maysuri, Zulkarnain Zulkarnain, Miftahuddin Miftahuddin   +2 more
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Is It Just the Location? Visibility Analyses of the West Pomeranian Megaliths of the Funnel Beaker Culture

Open Archaeology, 2022
The article attempts to apply visibility analyses to megalithic tombs of the Funnel Beaker Culture in the Pyrzyce Plain in north-western Poland. The analyses were carried out on 23 megalithic monuments in order to answer the questions whether the sites ...
Matuszewska Agnieszka, Schiller Marek
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