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Digging for the Dead: Archaeological Practice as Mortuary Commemoration

Public Archaeology, 2007
AbstractArchaeologists have yet to fully appreciate the complex interactions between archaeological practice and contemporary responses towards death and commemoration in the UK. The paper reflects upon the experience of working with the local community during archaeological fieldwork in and around an English country churchyard at Stokenham in the ...
Howard Williams, Elizabeth J L Williams
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The Mortuary Archaeology of the Medieval Banat (10th-14th Centuries)

2014
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Anthropological and Archaeological Approaches to Mortuary Rituals – a Synthesis

Revista CICSA online, Serie Nouă, 2015
Anthropology and archaeology have a long tradition in shaping a discourse on the phenomenon of death. From the very beginning of the archeological discipline there is to be noticed a special interest regarding the funerary contexts – the funerary inventory, the body of the deceased and the treatment applied to it.
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Reflections on Intersections of Mortuary Archaeology and Contemporary Society

2016
Growing up in my family, we were taught that education was the solution (or one of the most important solutions) to many problems. So, it is not so surprising that I once believed something that many still believe—that education about archaeology will result in better public understanding of what we do, and some level of agreement vis-à-vis the value ...
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African Perspectives on Death, Burial, and Mortuary Archaeology

2013
Abstract For those engaging with the archaeology of sub-Saharan Africa for the first time, the variable but generally limited presence of mortuary archaeologies may be quite striking, although in a few regions, notably the Middle Nile, burial archaeology is better developed, providing exceptional possibilities for exploring long-term ...
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Mortuary Archaeology and Religious Landscape at Graeco-Roman Deir el-Medina

The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 1997
Post-excavation analyses and interpretations of the site of Deir el-Medina have focused on the extensive New Kingdom documentary and material data. This has usually been at the expense of later periods, although the site demonstrates a broad temporal spectrum, with the construction of a Ptolemaic temple and significant Saite, Ptolemaic and Roman ...
Dominic Montserrat, Lynn Meskell
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A historical review of ethnological and archaeological analyses of mortuary practice

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 1982
Abstract For over a century, anthropologists have analyzed death-related phenomena to acquire knowledge concerning religion, social organization, and economic cooperation. There have been notable epistemological shifts in this inquiry by socioculturalanthropologists, with a “time lag” prior to concomitant archaeological shifts in explanation of ...
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Mortuary Variability: An Archaeological Investigation

Man, 1986
Mike Parker Pearson, John M. O'Shea
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Mortuary Archaeology and the Middle Bronze Age Southern Levant

Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, 1995
This article seeks to understand better the mortuary materials of the Southern Levant in the Middle Bronze Age (MBA). Previous studies of the MBA have investigated burial and settlement remains without differentiation. The mortuary data have therefore never been treated to the sorts of analyses that they require.
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Archaeological Study of Mortuary Practices in the Eastern United States

2013
Abstract Key to contemporary approaches to mortuary analysis in the Eastern Woodlands is the concept of liturgy as embodied in the mortuary programme. Together they bridge to social life through associated human ritual. Liturgy, ritual, and the mortuary programme become linked through the perspective of human agency.
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