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Exploration of hanging coffin customs and the bo people in China through comparative genomics [PDF]

Nature Communications
The Hanging Coffin represents a distinctive mortuary tradition practiced across southern China, Southeast Asia (e.g., the Log Coffin), and the Pacific approximately 3,000 years.
Hui Zhou, Le Tao, Yinhui Zhao, Haifeng He, Hong Shi, Tengsong Yu, Yaozheng Guo, Yaoxi He, Hong Liu, Yun Wu, Jiayong Cao, Zhenyu Kuang, Shifeng Wu, Fuchun Lin, Yundong Yang, Lifeng Xiong, Yilan Liu, Kongyang Zhu, Yu Xu, Shengmin Huang, Xiaomin Yang, Rui Wang, Baitong Wang, Xian Wang, Wen-Jing Lu, Wibhu Kutanan, Rasmi Shoocongdej, Bing Su, Chuan-Chao Wang, Xueping Ji, Xiaoming Zhang   +30 more
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Meaning-making behavior in a small-brained hominin, Homo naledi, from the late Pleistocene: contexts and evolutionary implications [PDF]

eLife
Explorations in the Dinaledi Subsystem of the Rising Star cave system have yielded some of the earliest evidence of a mortuary practice in hominins. Because the evidence is attributable to the small-brained Homo naledi, these analyses call into question ...
Agustín Fuentes, Marc Kissel, Penny Spikins, Keneiloe Molopyane, John Hawks, Lee R Berger   +5 more
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Evidence for deliberate burial of the dead by Homo naledi [PDF]

eLife
In this study, we describe new results of excavations in the Dinaledi Subsystem of the Rising Star cave system, South Africa. In two areas within the Hill Antechamber and the Dinaledi Chamber, this work uncovered concentrations of abundant Homo naledi ...
Lee R Berger, Tebogo Vincent Makhubela, Keneiloe Molopyane, Ashley Krüger, Patrick Randolph-Quinney, Marina Elliott, Becca Peixotto, Agustín Fuentes, Paul Tafforeau, Vincent Beyrand, Kathleen Dollman, Zubair Jinnah, Angharad Brewer Gillham, Kenneth Broad, Juliet Brophy, Gideon Chinamatira, Paul HGM Dirks, Elen Feuerriegel, Alia Gurtov, Nompumelelo Hlophe, Lindsay Hunter, Rick Hunter, Kudakwashe Jakata, Corey Jaskolski, Hannah Morris, Ellie Pryor, Maropeng Mpete, Eric M Roberts, Jacqueline S Smilg, Mathabela Tsikoane, Steven Tucker, Dirk Van Rooyen, Kerryn Warren, Colin D Wren, Marc Kissel, Penny Spikins, John Hawks   +36 more
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New insights of cultural cannibalism amongst Magdalenian groups at Maszycka Cave, Poland [PDF]

Scientific Reports
The manipulation of human corpses started to become commonplace during the Upper Paleolithic. This well-documented behavior among Magdalenian peoples consists of perimortem manipulation and the removal of soft tissues and has been understood as forming ...
Francesc Marginedas, Palmira Saladié, Marta Połtowicz-Bobak, Thomas Terberger, Dariusz Bobak, Antonio Rodríguez-Hidalgo   +5 more
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Two Graves from Batina: An indication of the economic role and social status of women near the Danube in the Early Iron Age

Arheološki Vestnik, 2023
The majority of the Early Iron Age cremation graves of women near the Middle Danube in northeast Croatia and northwest Serbia, in the cemeteries of Batina, Dalj, Vukovar, Sotin and Doroslovo, contained an urn, a set of ceramic vessels, and sometimes ...
Daria Ložnjak Dizdar, Carola Metzner-Nebelsick, Petra Rajić Šikanjić, Antonela Barbir, Julia Katarina Fileš Kramberger   +4 more
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Quantifying Patterns in Mortuary Practices: An Application of Factor Analysis and Cluster Analysis to Data From the Taosi Site, China

Open Archaeology, 2022
In Chinese mortuary research, too much reliance on traditional qualitative typological analysis renders quantitative attributes of mortuary practice data ignored. Examining the Taosi cemetery one of the famous cemeteries of Neolithic China (2300–1900 BC),
Bai Yang
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Animals in Mortuary Practices of Bronze-Age Pastoral Societies: Caprine Use at the Site of Dunping in Northwestern China

Animals, 2023
The late second and first millennium BC witnessed extensive economic, cultural, and political exchanges between pastoralists and sedentary farming states in East Asia. Decades of archaeological fieldwork across northern China have revealed a large number
Yue Li, Ruoxin Cheng, Zexian Huang, Xiaolu Mao, Kexin Liu, Qianwen Wang, Furen Hou, Ruilin Mao, Chengrui Zhang   +8 more
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Ritual Process and Symbolic Transformation in Cultural Landscapes of Proto-Urban Bactria

Asian Studies, 2021
The focus of this discussion is a recent book on the Bronze Age Proto-Bactrian culture of Southern Uzbekistan. I dare say that there are some books that inspire us to study monuments, and there are some monuments that inspire us to write books.
Vladimir I. Ionesov
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Reconsidering the lives of the earliest Puerto Ricans: Mortuary Archaeology and bioarchaeology of the Ortiz site.

PLoS ONE, 2023
We possess rather little detailed information on the lives of the first inhabitants of Puerto Rico-the so-called "Archaic" or "Pre-Arawak" people-despite more than a century of archeological research.
William J Pestle, Elizabeth M Perez, Daniel Koski-Karell   +2 more
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(Un)Usual Neolithic and Early Eneolithic mortuary practices in the area of the North Carpathian Basin

Documenta Praehistorica, 2010
On the basis of the characteristics of Neolithic and Early Eneolithic mortuary practices in the area of North Carpathian Basin it can be argued that the existence of graveyards is an isolated phenomenon.
Alena Bistáková, Noémi Pažinová
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