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Quantifying Patterns in Mortuary Practices: An Application of Factor Analysis and Cluster Analysis to Data From the Taosi Site, China

Open Archaeology, 2022
In Chinese mortuary research, too much reliance on traditional qualitative typological analysis renders quantitative attributes of mortuary practice data ignored. Examining the Taosi cemetery one of the famous cemeteries of Neolithic China (2300–1900 BC),
Bai Yang
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The past in the past in the mortuary practice of hunter-gatherers: an example from a settlement and cemetery site in northern Latvia

Documenta Praehistorica, 2017
During excavations of burials at Zvejnieki in northern Latvia, it transpired that the grave fill included occupation material brought to the grave. It contained tools of a type that could not be contemporaneous with the grave.
Lars Olof Georg Larsson
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Exploration of hanging coffin customs and the bo people in China through comparative genomics [PDF]

Nature Communications
The Hanging Coffin represents a distinctive mortuary tradition practiced across southern China, Southeast Asia (e.g., the Log Coffin), and the Pacific approximately 3,000 years.
Hui Zhou, Le Tao, Yinhui Zhao, Haifeng He, Hong Shi, Tengsong Yu, Yaozheng Guo, Yaoxi He, Hong Liu, Yun Wu, Jiayong Cao, Zhenyu Kuang, Shifeng Wu, Fuchun Lin, Yundong Yang, Lifeng Xiong, Yilan Liu, Kongyang Zhu, Yu Xu, Shengmin Huang, Xiaomin Yang, Rui Wang, Baitong Wang, Xian Wang, Wen-Jing Lu, Wibhu Kutanan, Rasmi Shoocongdej, Bing Su, Chuan-Chao Wang, Xueping Ji, Xiaoming Zhang   +30 more
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Meaning-making behavior in a small-brained hominin, Homo naledi, from the late Pleistocene: contexts and evolutionary implications [PDF]

eLife
Explorations in the Dinaledi Subsystem of the Rising Star cave system have yielded some of the earliest evidence of a mortuary practice in hominins. Because the evidence is attributable to the small-brained Homo naledi, these analyses call into question ...
Agustín Fuentes, Marc Kissel, Penny Spikins, Keneiloe Molopyane, John Hawks, Lee R Berger   +5 more
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Body donor programs in Australia and New Zealand: Current status and future opportunities [PDF]

Anatomical Sciences Education, Volume 18, Issue 3, Page 301-328, March 2025.
Abstract 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.
Rebekah A. Jenkin, Kevin A. Keay
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New insights of cultural cannibalism amongst Magdalenian groups at Maszycka Cave, Poland [PDF]

Scientific Reports
The manipulation of human corpses started to become commonplace during the Upper Paleolithic. This well-documented behavior among Magdalenian peoples consists of perimortem manipulation and the removal of soft tissues and has been understood as forming ...
Francesc Marginedas, Palmira Saladié, Marta Połtowicz-Bobak, Thomas Terberger, Dariusz Bobak, Antonio Rodríguez-Hidalgo   +5 more
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Cultural Modifications in an Adolescent Earth-Oven Interment from Fiji: Sorting out Mortuary Practice

Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 2007
Ethan Cochrane, Michael Pietrusewsky
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Two Graves from Batina: An indication of the economic role and social status of women near the Danube in the Early Iron Age

Arheološki Vestnik, 2023
The majority of the Early Iron Age cremation graves of women near the Middle Danube in northeast Croatia and northwest Serbia, in the cemeteries of Batina, Dalj, Vukovar, Sotin and Doroslovo, contained an urn, a set of ceramic vessels, and sometimes ...
Daria Ložnjak Dizdar, Carola Metzner-Nebelsick, Petra Rajić Šikanjić, Antonela Barbir, Julia Katarina Fileš Kramberger   +4 more
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Animals in Mortuary Practices of Bronze-Age Pastoral Societies: Caprine Use at the Site of Dunping in Northwestern China

Animals, 2023
The late second and first millennium BC witnessed extensive economic, cultural, and political exchanges between pastoralists and sedentary farming states in East Asia. Decades of archaeological fieldwork across northern China have revealed a large number
Yue Li, Ruoxin Cheng, Zexian Huang, Xiaolu Mao, Kexin Liu, Qianwen Wang, Furen Hou, Ruilin Mao, Chengrui Zhang   +8 more
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Ritual Process and Symbolic Transformation in Cultural Landscapes of Proto-Urban Bactria

Asian Studies, 2021
The focus of this discussion is a recent book on the Bronze Age Proto-Bactrian culture of Southern Uzbekistan. I dare say that there are some books that inspire us to study monuments, and there are some monuments that inspire us to write books.
Vladimir I. Ionesov
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