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Un cráneo del norte de Patagonia con modificaciones postmórtem: Aproximación mediante técnicas no invasivas A skull from northern Patagonia with postmortem modifications: an approach using non-invasive techniques

Intersecciones en Antropología, 2011
En el contexto de la puesta en valor de las colecciones de restos óseos humanos del Museo de La Plata se halló un cráneo con evidencias de un complejo tratamiento post mórtem desconocido hasta el momento.
Mariano Del Papa, Florencia Gordón, Juan C Castro, Laura Fuchs, Lumila Menéndez, Andrés Di Bastiano, Héctor M Pucciarell   +6 more
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Ethnoarchaeology of Mortuary Practices

Revista de Arqueología Americana
Death is not the end, but rather a beginning. Drawing on historical sources and ethnographic fieldwork with the Wayana Indigenous People of French Guiana, this essay explores the interrelationships embodied during mortuary practices and personal treatment of the dead.
openaire   +1 more source

Blog bodies: Mortuary archaeology and blogging [PDF]

, 2014
This is the published version of the book chapter which is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.Mortuary archaeology - the study of past beliefs and practices surrounding dying, death and the dead using ...
Meyers, Katy, Williams, Howard
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Prácticas mortuorias y registro bioarqueológico en la costa rionegrina del golfo San Matías, Argentina Mortuary practices and the bioarchaeological record Of The San Matías Gulf Coast, Rio Negro, Argentina

Intersecciones en Antropología, 2011
El objetivo de este trabajo es presentar los resultados del análisis de la variabilidad de prácticas mortuorias que tuvieron lugar en la costa de Río Negro (Argentina) en una escala temporal de análisis que abarca desde los ca. 3100 a los 400 años.
Carolina I Mariano
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Rising trends in sodium nitrite suicides: A case series from Cape Town, South Africa

South African Medical Journal
Sodium nitrite (NaNO2) ingestion results in methaemoglobinaemia, which can cause hypoxia, metabolic acidosis and death. Sodium nitrite is an inorganic salt, easily accessible and widely used as a colourant, food preservative and corrosion inhibitor.
V R Bachan, M B K M Hlela
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Cultural Modifications in an Adolescent Earth-Oven Interment from Fiji: Sorting out Mortuary Practice [PDF]

, 2007
Cochrane, E, Douglas, M, Pietruesewsky, M, Reinke, S   +3 more
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Six Signs of Scientism [PDF]

, 2010
As the English word “scientism” is currently used, it is a trivial verbal truth that scientism—an inappropriately deferential attitude to science—should be avoided.
Haack, Susan
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Osteoarthritis, entheses, and long bone cross-sectional geometry in the Andes: Usage, history, and future directions. [PDF]

, 2019
Akin to approaches encouraged by Verano (1997) in the Andes, and Ortner (2011, 2012) for general paleopathological studies, this article focuses on accurate descriptions and definitions of osteoarthritis, entheses, and long bone cross-sectional geometry.
Becker, Sara K
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THE BURNED BONES IN TOCA DO ALTO DO CAPIM

Cadernos do LEPAARQ, 2014
Funerary practices are acts performed by a group and/or a family to the body of one or more individuals after death. Relating the terms funeral and practice is to admit the straight intentions of this research.
Mauro Alexandre Farias Fontes, Lucas Braga da Silva   +1 more
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Death, memory and material culture: Catalytic commemoration and the cremated dead [PDF]

, 2013
This is the author's version of a book chapter published in The Oxford handbook of the archaeology of death and burial by Oxford University Press ...
Williams, Howard
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