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Body donor programs in Australia and New Zealand: Current status and future opportunities. [PDF]
Anat Sci EducAbstract Body donation is critical to anatomy study in Australia and New Zealand. Annually, more than 10,000 students, anatomists, researchers, and clinicians access tissue donated by local consented donors through university‐based body donation programs. However, little research has been published about their operations.
Jenkin RA, Keay KA.
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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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Sister Death and the Care of All Creation: A Franciscan Argument for Green Burial
Religions, 2022 Since Jessica Mitford’s 1963 scathing critique of the mortuary business in the United States, there has been an ongoing debate about how best to honor and dispose of the dead in ways that do not exploit people. However, the backlash to predatory mortuary
Darleen Pryds
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Nature Communications, 2023 The Iron Age of highland Pang Mapha, northwestern Thailand, is characterised by a mortuary practice known as Log Coffin culture. Dating between 2300 and 1000 years ago, large coffins carved from individual teak trees have been discovered in over 40 caves
Selina Carlhoff +7 more
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Funerary Program of the Tupinambá in Araruama, RJ - Bananeiras Site.
Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, 2003 In this article, we aim to present significant information about the mortuary structure found in the “Bananeiras” archaeological site (Araruama, RJ) related to theTupinamba settlement.
Angela Buarque +2 more
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Documenta Praehistorica, 2010 This article presents the first synthesis of the evidence for a diverse range of mortuary practices across the British Isles, and an interpretation of what they suggest about understandings of the body, relatedness, personhood and ancestry in Early ...
Chris Fowler
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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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The Southern Frontier of the Meroitic State: The View from Jebel Moya [PDF]
, 2014 The site of Jebel Moya, excavated in the early twentieth century, represents arguably the largest pastoral mortuary complex in Africa. Jebel Moya is resituated in relation to the neighbouring Meroitic-era agro-pastoral settlements and the only known ...
Brass, M
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Cultivating Corpses: A Comparative Approach to Disembodied Mortuary Remains
Current Swedish Archaeology, 2004 Disembodied remains of corpses are often found in the archaeological record but seldom interpreted and understood. This mortuary practice challenges our traditional understanding of funerals and what constitutcs a "grave". Through a comparative analysis
Anders Kaliff, Terje Oestigaard
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