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The Changing Features and Functions of Funeral Art Forms in Ibibio Land of Nigeria [PDF]
, 2015 Ibibio funeral art form has developed with the ethnic belief system of ancestral veneration. It has been marked with distinctive indigenization of spatial symbolization of forms to the creation of “nwommo” and cement tomb stone in their quest for ...
E. Umoanwan, Uwem, Nyah, Anselem A.
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The evolution of cultural diversity in Pama-Nyungan Australia
Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsExplaining the processes that produce cultural diversity has long been a focus of anthropological study. Whilst linguistic diversity has frequently been shown to be associated with population splitting during migrations, much less is known about the ...
Duncan Learmouth +2 more
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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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Proceedings of the African Diaspora Conference on Sustainable Development [PDF]
, 2006 The authors urge the Western donor organizations to facilitate and support the take up of such more sustainable ...
Hyacinth S. Nwana, Joseph H. M. Tah
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Patterns in the modification of animal and human bones in Iron Age Wessex: revisiting the excarnation debate [PDF]
, 2008 Social practices concerning the treatment of human and animal remains in the Iron Age have long been a focus of debate in archaeological literature. The absence of evidence of a formal burial rite and the regular retrieval of human remains from ‘special’
Madgwick, Richard
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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 +6 more
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Ethnoarchaeology of Mortuary Practices
Revista de Arqueología AmericanaDeath 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.
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Contextual significance of ritual evidence in Malta [PDF]
, 1995 Archaeology has not yet provided us with the proper tools and the right means for reading the minds of our prehistoric ancestors from the material evidence they left us. When and if such means are ever made available, we may rest assured they will be
Bonanno, Anthony
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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 JournalSodium 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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