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Genetic Evidence of <i>Yersinia pestis</i> from the First Pandemic. [PDF]

open access: yesGenes (Basel)
Adapa SR   +13 more
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Reading Between the Lines: Jewish Mortuary Practices in Text and Archaeology

open access: yesArchaeology and Text: A Journal for the Integration of Material Culture with Written Documents in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East, 2017
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Lethal Plague Outbreaks in Lake Baikal Hunter–gatherers 5500 Years Ago

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Macleod R   +19 more
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Forensic archaeology as mortuary anthropology

Social Science & Medicine, 1992
This 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 A Lovis
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Social Analysis of Mortuary Evidence in German Protohistoric Archaeology

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 2000
German 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
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The Archaeology of Death: Mortuary Archaeology in the United States and Europe 1990–2013

Annual Review of Anthropology, 2014
Mortuary 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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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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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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