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Forensic archaeology as mortuary anthropology
Social Science and Medicine, 1992This paper argues that forensic anthropology is more than just physical anthropology, but should incorporate several subdisciplinary perspectives into a framework of mortuary anthropology. The advantage of this holistic approach is to provide context for the primary roles of physical anthropologists; identification of victims, and assessing manner of ...
William Lovis
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Forensic anthropology and mortuary archaeology in Lithuania
Anthropologischer Anzeiger, 2009Forensic anthropology (in Lithuania, as everywhere in Eastern Europe, traditionally considered as a narrower field--forensic osteology) has a long history, experience being gained both during exhumations of mass killings during the Second World War and the subsequent totalitarian regime, investigations of historical mass graves, identification of ...
Rimantas Jankauskas
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The Archaeology of Death: Mortuary Archaeology in the United States and Europe 1990–2013
Annual Review of Anthropology, 2014Mortuary archaeology has always been viewed as one of the most richly evocative sources of evidence for past social systems, particularly those without writing. However, the political context within which archaeology developed as a discipline, especially in countries with a colonial past, has made it difficult or impossible for the burial record to be ...
Bettina Arnold, Robert J Jeske
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Social Analysis of Mortuary Evidence in German Protohistoric Archaeology
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 2000German early historical archaeology has witnessed since the 1960s an intensive debate on the social analysis of mortuary remains. It started out with the question of archaeological criteria for the inference of social status in early medieval cemeteries. In the 1970s, attention shifted from quantitative to qualitative analyses of grave goods and to the
Heinrich Harke
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Death, society and archaeology: The social dimensions of mortuary practices
Mortality, 2003(2003). Death, society and archaeology: The social dimensions of mortuary practices. Mortality: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 305-312.
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Merovingian Mortuary Archaeology and the Making of the Early Middle Ages
Choice Reviews Online, 2003Bonnie Effros
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Mortuary Archaeology: What Do We Learn from Mortuary Contexts?
Bioarchaeology and Social TheoryOsterholtz Anna
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Archaeological knowledge production: reading mortuary reconstructions
Antiquity, 2022Research on archaeological knowledge production emphasises the contingent nature of understandings of the past. In practice, however, levels of uncertainty and conjecture can easily become less than obvious in interpretations, perhaps especially visual ones.
Marianne Moen, Neil Price, Unn Pedersen
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2023
Abstract This chapter examines the relevance of networks in mortuary archaeology. It traces the genealogy of network thinking and provides a critical synthesis of the diverse ways in which successive generations of archaeologists have approached and interpreted relations when researching the mortuary archaeological record.
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Abstract This chapter examines the relevance of networks in mortuary archaeology. It traces the genealogy of network thinking and provides a critical synthesis of the diverse ways in which successive generations of archaeologists have approached and interpreted relations when researching the mortuary archaeological record.
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