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Lepromatous leprosy in Bronze Age Oman: micro-CT provides tools for paleopathology in fragmentary and commingled assemblages. [PDF]

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Complexity in Arikara Mortuary Practice

Plains Anthropologist, 1978
Traditionally, Arikara mortuary practice has been described as direct interment soon after death in wood-covered pits.
P Willey, D H Ubelaker
exaly   +3 more sources

Landscapes and Mortuary Practices

Interdisciplinary Contributions To Archaeology, 1995
Archaeologists 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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Pathways to Ancestral Worlds: Mortuary Practice in the Irish Neolithic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This paper offers an overview and review of the evidence for mortuary practice in Ireland in the Late Neolithic period. Assumptions about the chronological relationship between cremation and inhumation are made, and these two categories are also ...
Gabriel Cooney
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Mortuary Practices

2022
Abstract Rituals surrounding the treatment and disposal of fellow humans are recurrent features of human culture. Many practices are time-consuming, expensive, elaborate, and even dangerous. Why then do people perform mortuary rituals? Anthropological and sociological researchers have long asserted that mortuary rituals confer tangible ...
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Time in the reproduction of mortuary practices

World Archaeology, 1993
Abstract 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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The autopsy and mortuary practice

1991
Autopsy (also known as necropsy or post-mortem examination) — the examination of the organs and tissues after death — has been practised for many thousands of years. The embalmers of Pharaonic Egypt possessed some anatomical knowledge. Roman and Greek army surgeons obtained their knowledge through the dissection of battlefield casualties.
Jennifer Green, Michael Green
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