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Open Archaeology, 2016 Research on the emergence of institutionalized inequality has traditionally maintained an analytical divide between lived institutions that affect daily life and performed institutions materialized in mortuary contexts. Here, we argue that convergence or
Quinn Colin P., Beck Jess
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Exploring your Inner Hades: DNA as Mortuary Archaeology
AP: Online Journal in Public Archaeology, 2018 Two revolutions in using human genetics to investigate the past are beginning to have a profound effect on how the public regard heritage and their connection to it. Direct-to-consumer genetic ancestry tests (GATs) are becoming a popular way for the public to explore their familial history and ancestry.
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Theoretical Perspectives to Archaeology of Mortuary practices: a brief overview
Habitus, 2017 This paper intends to discuss the general alignments of major theoretical approaches when it comes to archaeological studies about cemeteries and funerary practices. I seek to bring examples of executed researches in different mortuary contexts and analyze how contrasting academic orientations allow us to answer distinct questions.
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The excavation of Non Ban Jak, Northeast Thailand - A report on the first three seasons [PDF]
, 2014 Non Ban Jak is a large, moated site located in the upper Mun Valley, Northeast Thailand. Excavations over three seasons in 2011-4 have revealed a sequence of occupation that covers the final stage of the local Iron Age.
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La notion de genre ou comment problématiser l’archéologie funéraire
Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2015 Concerning death archaeology, the notion of gender does not simply refer to the study of social distinction between men and women materialized in burials. The analyses based on a strict men/women opposition do not necessarily enable to report the reality
Chloé Belard
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The Southern Frontier of the Meroitic State: The View from Jebel Moya [PDF]
, 2014 The site of Jebel Moya, excavated in the early twentieth century, represents arguably the largest pastoral mortuary complex in Africa. Jebel Moya is resituated in relation to the neighbouring Meroitic-era agro-pastoral settlements and the only known ...
Brass, M
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Cultivating Corpses: A Comparative Approach to Disembodied Mortuary Remains
Current Swedish Archaeology, 2004 Disembodied remains of corpses are often found in the archaeological record but seldom interpreted and understood. This mortuary practice challenges our traditional understanding of funerals and what constitutcs a "grave". Through a comparative analysis
Anders Kaliff, Terje Oestigaard
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Decorating the Neolithic: an Evaluation of the Use of Plaster in the Enhancement of Daily Life in the Middle Pre-pottery Neolithic B of the Southern Levant [PDF]
, 2012 During the Middle Pre-pottery Neolithic B in the southern Levant the use of lime plaster in both ritual and domestic contexts increased significantly relative to previous periods.
Clarke, Joanne
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Documenta Praehistorica, 2011 This paper discuses the conceptualisation of ‘partible’ and ‘permeable’ dividual personhood in archaeology. It focuses on flows of substances as media which produce relations with others and are used in altering the composition of the person according to
Mihael Budja
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Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal, 2020 This paper addresses how the changes in Slovenian politics have been influencing the interpretation of identity in the sphere of Roman mortuary archaeology.
Kaja Stemberger
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