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Cultural Modifications in an Adolescent Earth-Oven Interment from Fiji: Sorting out Mortuary Practice [PDF]

Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 2007
Michael Pietrusewsky, Ethan E Cochrane
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‘Sons of athelings given to the earth’: Infant Mortality within Anglo-Saxon Mortuary Geography [PDF]

, 2014
FOR 20 OR MORE YEARS early Anglo-Saxon archaeologists have believed children are underrepresented in the cemetery evidence. They conclude that excavation misses small bones, that previous attitudes to reporting overlook the very young, or that infants ...
Adams B, Akerman J Y, Aldsworth F, Annable F K, Blair J, Blair J, Bloch M, Boyle A, Boyle A, Brookes S J, Buckberry J, Campbell J, Cook A M, Corney A, Crawford S, Crawford S, Crawford S, Crawford S, Crawford S, Crawford S, Dickinson T, Down A, Drinkall G, Duncan H, DUNCAN SAYER, Evison V I, Evison V I, Evison V I, Evison V I, Evison V I, Gilchrist R, Glass H, Glenn J, Goody J, Green B, Green B, Hamerow H, Haughton C, Hawkes S C, Hawkes S C, Hawkes S C, Hills C, Hills C, Hirst S, Hunn A, Härke H, Härke H, Jackes M, Kinsley A G, Lee C, Leeds E T, Liddle P, Lucy S, Lucy S, Lucy S, Lyle M, Malim T, Matthews C L, Merbs C, Murray A C, Musty J, Pader E-J, Parfitt K, Parfitt K, Pasternak B, Penn K, Penn K, Perkins D R J, Ravn M, Richardson A, Sayer D, Sayer D, Scheschkewitz J, Scheuer L, Seebohn F, Semple S, Shennan S, Sherlock S J, Stenton F, Stoodley N, Thompson V, Timby J, UNICEF, WHO, World Bank, UN Population Division, Van Gennep A, Warhurst A, West S E, Whitelock D, Williams H, Williams P, York B   +89 more
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Radiocarbon dates from the Highland Jar and Coffin burial site of Phnom Khnang Peung, Cardamom Mountains, Cambodia [PDF]

, 2015
The Cardamom Mountain Jar and Coffin burial site of Phnom Khnang Peung is the most extensive example of the distinctive burial ritual first reported by Beavan et al. (2012a).
Beavan, Nancy, Hamilton, Derek, Sayle, Kerry, Sokha, Tep   +3 more
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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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Complexity and coherence [PDF]

, 2012
Leslie Topp traces the emergence of the asylum mortuary as an architectural challenge. Drawing on new archival research, Complexity and Coherence: The Challenge of the Asylum Mortuary in Central Europe, 1898–1908 unpacks the highly fraught combination of
Topp, Leslie
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Once in a lifetime: the date of the Wayland's Smithy long barrow [PDF]

, 2007
Twenty-three radiocarbon results are now available from the Wayland’s Smithy long barrow, and are presented within an interpretive Bayesian statistical framework.
Bayliss, A, Whittle, A, Wysocki, Michael Peter   +2 more
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Memory, tradition, and Christianization of the Peloponnese [PDF]

, 2015
This work examines the use of memory and tradition in the Christianization of the Peloponnese based on the evidence of the location and topography of churches.
Sweetman, Rebecca Jane
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Mortuary Workers, the Church, and the Funeral Trade in Late Antiquity [PDF]

, 2013
Within the city of Constantinople, Constantine organized numerous funeral workers into associations overseen by a bishop, as part of a scheme meant to provide burials for all who needed them within the city.
Bond, Sarah E.
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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.
Cameron, Judith, Castillo, Cristina, Chang, Nigel, Halcrow, Sian, Higham, Charles, O'Reilly, Dougald, Petchey, Fiona, Shewan, Louise   +7 more
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Reflecting on loss in Papua New Guinea [PDF]

, 2006
This article takes up the conundrum of conducting anthropological fieldwork with people who claim that they have 'lost their culture,' as is the case with Suau people in the Massim region of Papua New Guinea.
Albert Steve, Anere David Lusa, Armstrong W. A., Battaglia Debbora, Bergendorff Steen, Bolton Lissant, Brown Michael F., Damon Frederick H., de Coppet Daniel, Demian Melissa, Demian Melissa, Demian Melissa, Epstein A. L., Errington Frederick, Foster Robert J., Geschiere Peter, Jolly Margaret, Keesing Roger M., Macintyre Martha, Mallett Shelley, McDowell Nancy, Melissa Demian, Mosko Mark, Mosko Mark, Munn Nancy, Narokobi Bernard, Prendergast Patricia A., Sanders Todd, Stasch Rupert, Strathern Marilyn, Strathern Marilyn, Toft Susan, Tonkinson Robert, Wagner Roy, Weiner James, Wetherell David, Williams F. E., Young Michael, Young Michael   +38 more
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