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Reexamining Ceramic Standardization During Agricultural Transition: A Geometric Morphometric Investigation of Initial – Early Yayoi Earthenware, Japan

Open Archaeology, 2022
The quantifiable and reproducible representation of variability in material culture has continued to play a key role in the elucidation of shifting patterns of production organization in prehistoric archaeology.
Loftus James Frances
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¿A dónde van los muertos?: las crisis de la muerte y las geografías sagradas en el esquema tripartito de los ritos de paso

Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología, 2022
Within funerary archaeology, contemporary studies on death rites have promoted a series of conceptual needs to understand the commemoration of death and its impact on human sociability from new perspectives.
Juan Pablo Ospina Herrera
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Archaeodeath as Digital Public Mortuary Archaeology [PDF]

, 2019
Since 2013, I have been writing an academic WordPress weblog (blog) – Archaeodeath: The Archaeology and Heritage of Death & Memory. In earlier publications, I have published preliminary reflections on the benefits of Archaeodeath as 'digital public mortuary archaeology' (DPMA), considering how it affords a mode of open-access public dissemination of ...
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Wari Lithic Technology on the Northern Coast of the Andes: Geochemical, 2D Geometric Morphometric, and Technological Analyses of Obsidian Bifaces From San José de Moro

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines Wari obsidian production in a cache of 39 bifaces found at the Late Moche site of San José de Moro (Jequetepeque Valley, North Coast of Peru, 700–850 ad). Portable X‐ray fluorescence, geometric morphometric, and technological analyses were used to investigate raw material provenance and bifacial production.
Antonio Pérez‐Balarezo, Luis Jaime Castillo, Jalh Dulanto   +2 more
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Deux nouveaux sites sépulcraux de la presqu’île de Narinda (Madagascar

Afrique Archéologie Arts
This article presents an initial inventory of the remains visible on the surface and a preliminary archaeological study of two new sepulchral sites on the Narinda Peninsula (Madagascar).
Nicolas Nomenjanahary, Beby Ramanivosoa, Frédérique Valentin, Dominique Gommery, Roger Randrianja   +4 more
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Investigating Karanis Necropolis in a Pagan Christian Context [PDF]

المجلة العلمیة لکلیة السیاحة والفنادق جامعة الأسکندریة, 2010
        Cemeteries have long interested scholars from such diverse fields as Archaeology, art history, cultural geography, anthropology, history, and those concerned with heritage conservation.
Nashwa M. S. Solieman
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Scaling relationships between Haversian canal‐to‐secondary osteon and midshaft femur cortical‐to‐total area in a human autopsy sample

Journal of Anatomy, EarlyView.
We report that femoral cortical thickness was strongly and negatively associated with secondary osteon porosity in an Australian autopsy sample, indicating that thicker cortices contained less porous secondary osteons. This allometric relationship held for the whole sample, males and sedentary well‐nourished individuals, but not for females or other ...
Justyna J. Miszkiewicz, Laura A. B. Wilson, Karen M. Cooke, Rita Hardiman   +3 more
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Archaeological and anthropological studies on the Harappan cemetery of Rakhigarhi, India.

PLoS ONE, 2018
An insufficient number of archaeological surveys has been carried out to date on Harappan Civilization cemeteries. One case in point is the necropolis at Rakhigarhi site (Haryana, India), one of the largest cities of the Harappan Civilization, where most
Vasant S Shinde, Yong Jun Kim, Eun Jin Woo, Nilesh Jadhav, Pranjali Waghmare, Yogesh Yadav, Avradeep Munshi, Malavika Chatterjee, Amrithavalli Panyam, Jong Ha Hong, Chang Seok Oh, Dong Hoon Shin   +11 more
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Les abris sépulcraux de la presqu’île de Narinda (Province de Mahajanga, Madagascar)

Afrique Archéologie Arts, 2007
This paper presents the preliminary results of an archaeological survey carried out in five funerary rock shelters in the karst (tsingy) of the Narinda region, on the North-West side of Madagascar.
Frédérique Valentin, Beby Ramanivosoa, Dominique Gommery, Sabine Tombomiadana-Raveloson   +3 more
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Narrative reconstruction of the self: Living funerals as rituals of trauma and transformation

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Living funerals mark a radical reconfiguration of contemporary engagements with mortality, transforming death from an imposed ending into an actively authored narrative. This study examines the practice in Hong Kong's hybrid sociocultural landscape, where traditional Chinese death rituals collide with neoliberal selfhood and globalised ...
Yuen‐Ki Tang
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