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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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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 ...
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Digging for the Dead: Archaeological Practice as Mortuary Commemoration
Public Archaeology, 2007AbstractArchaeologists 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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Mortuary Archaeology and Religious Landscape at Graeco-Roman Deir el-Medina
The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 1997Post-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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“Unwanted Guests”: Evidence of Parasitic Infections in Archaeological Mortuary Contexts
Historical Archaeology, 2020Parasites have had a significant impact on the course of human history—parasites have caused the deaths of countless individuals, have resulted in the abandonment of settlements, and have even affected the outcome of wars. It is curious, therefore, that archaeologists, even those engaged in dialogues about health, well-being, and sanitation in past ...
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Anthropological and Archaeological Approaches to Mortuary Rituals – a Synthesis
Revista CICSA online, Serie Nouă, 2015Anthropology 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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African Perspectives on Death, Burial, and Mortuary Archaeology
2013Abstract 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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Health, Demography, and Archaeology of Mille Lacs Native American Mortuary Populations
Plains Anthropologist, 1994(1994). Health, Demography, and Archaeology of Mille Lacs Native American Mortuary Populations. Plains Anthropologist: Vol. 39, No. 149, pp. 251-260.
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