Virtually Dead: Digital Public Mortuary Archaeology [PDF]
Internet Archaeology, 2015 Over recent decades, the ethics, politics and public engagements of mortuary archaeology have received sustained scrutiny, including how we handle, write about and display the archaeological dead.
Howard Williams, Alison Atkin
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Reconsidering the lives of the earliest Puerto Ricans: Mortuary Archaeology and bioarchaeology of the Ortiz site. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 We possess rather little detailed information on the lives of the first inhabitants of Puerto Rico-the so-called "Archaic" or "Pre-Arawak" people-despite more than a century of archeological research.
William J Pestle +2 more
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Genetic analysis of mitochondrial DNA from ancient bones found at archaeological site of Joseon dynasty period capital area [PDF]
Animal Bioscience, 2022 Objective To understand the domestication and spread of horses in history, genetic information is essential. However, mitogenetic traits of ancient or medieval horses have yet to be comprehensively revealed, especially for East Asia.
Jong Ha Hong +4 more
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Unveiling Epitaphic Discourse in GORA Cemetery Rawalpindi, Pakistan: An Archaeo-Semiotic Appraisal
University of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature, 2021 This study aims to analyse the archaeo-semiotic discourse inscribed on the gravestones of the soldiers of World War I and World War II buried in Gora Qabristan Christian Cemetery, Rawalpindi.
Dr. Zafar Ullah
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Groma, 2022 Funerary archaeology reveals burial practices and the ways in which such mortuary practices can express social identities. The integration of archaeological and anthropological evidence can offer significant data regarding burials.
Debora Ferreri
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Stamped bricks of Amenhotep I from Deir el-Bahari [PDF]
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2018 Stamped bricks with the names of the king Amenhotep I and his mother, queen Ahmes Nefertari, were found throughout Deir el-Bahari, including the Temple of Hatshepsut investigated by a mission from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology University
Adrianna Madej
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The spirit with no anus and the pots that fart: ceramics of life and death in Northwest Amazonia
Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 2023 This paper takes as its starting point the story of a spirit with no anus whose inability to fart leads to his death and transformation into clay. In particular, it examines the relationship between pottery trumpets associated with this spirit (played in
Stephen Hugh-Jones
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Archaeological investigation of Early Bronze Age burial site QA 1 in Wadi al-Fajj in northern Oman: results of the 2016 season [PDF]
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2017 The first excavation season of a joint project of the PCMA and Department of Archaeology and Excavations, Ministry of Heritage and Culture, Oman, was carried out in the microregion of Qumayrah in the fall of 2016. A single tomb was investigated at an Umm
Łukasz Rutkowski
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PRÁTICAS FUNERÁRIAS NA ARQUEOLOGIA: Pluralidades e Patrimônio
Clio Arqueológica, 2018 Este artigo apresenta algumas considerações sobre a importância do estudo das práticas funerárias na arqueologia, com ênfase, ao final, na questão do cemitério como patrimônio.
Maria Aparecida da Silva Oliveira
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Heritage, 2022 St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church and churchyard, Toxteth, Liverpool, UK, is the focus of community efforts to research and conserve the heritage asset, and archaeologists at the University of Liverpool were invited to contribute their expertise to co ...
Harold Mytum +4 more
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