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Mortuary practices on children
1996This study is a reevaluation of past theories that recommend the use of mortuary practices to determine rank within cultures as applied to children. A comparative study of 40 cultures world wide is conducted using the Human Relation Area Files for ethnographic examples of mortuary practices. Funerary and mourning rituals performed for both children and
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Landscapes and Mortuary Practices
1995Archaeologists have understood the value and necessity of a regional approach for a number of years, with the application of regional studies focused primarily on settlements. However, a regional approach is equally valuable in the study of mortuary practices.
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Time in the reproduction of mortuary practices
World Archaeology, 1993Abstract This paper argues that the archaeologist can interpret the way time was marked through human practices and manipulated in the reproduction of relations of dominance. It is argued that this task can be accomplished by moving interpretative/analytical emphasis away from the examination of static patterns, and interpreting the way those variables
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ABORIGINAL MORTUARY PRACTICES IN CARNARVON
Oceania, 1976material presented in this paper is based upon interviews with six elderly Aborigines, upon active participation in the rituals at three funerals, and upon observation of two other funerals. The paper is not intended to be about all Aboriginal funerals and the associated beliefs and practices in Carnarvon; such a statement would require much more ...
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Changes in Navajo Mortuary Practices and Beliefs
American Indian Quarterly, 1978There is an accelerating trend for change from traditional burial practices to full Christian funerals on the Navajo Reservation today. Two other types of mortuary practices intervene between the extremes: modified traditional, that is, a Navajo burial with Christian elements added, and modified Christian, a church funeral with traditional elements ...
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Mortuary practices, problems, and analysis
2015Archaeological investigation is sometimes likened to opening a window on to the past. The problem is that, except in cases of unexpected and sudden disaster, for example where a shipwreck has been preserved untouched or a town was engulfed by volcanic ash, the archaeologist never examines a site as it was in its living heyday, only as it was after it ...
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Mortuary practices at the Krapina Neandertal site
American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 1987AbstractIt has often been reported that the Krapina Neandertal remains bear incised linear striations which appear to be cutmarks. Here, the plausibility of the striations as cutmarks is tested by comparing them to Mousterian butchery marks on large fauna and to cutmarks on modern human skeletons known to have been defleshed with stone tools.
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Neolithic mortuary practice in Orkney
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 2007The human skeletal remains from the Neolithic chambered cairn of Isbister, Orkney were re-examined to test the accuracy of observations reported in the published analysis. During the examination, pathological lesions, signs of weathering and other taphonomic markers were recorded.
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