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Documenta Praehistorica, 2010 This paper discusses how archaeologists can approach ways in which the ritual treatment of the dead body was a means of reproducing a sense of identity and community in the past. The approach combines a theoretical framework grounded in practice and body
Liv Nilsson Stutz
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Mortuary Workers, the Church, and the Funeral Trade in Late Antiquity [PDF]
, 2013 Within the city of Constantinople, Constantine organized numerous funeral workers into associations overseen by a bishop, as part of a scheme meant to provide burials for all who needed them within the city.
Bond, Sarah E.
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A Study of Living Megalithic Tradition Among the Gond Tribes, District – Nuaparha, Odisha
Ancient Asia, 2015 The present paper deals with the existence and continuation of living megalith tradition among the Gond tribe in Nuaparha district of Odisha. The mortuary practice of different tribal community have given many ethnographical data, which is used as a ...
S Mendaly
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Constructing community in the Neolithic of southern Jordan: Quotidian practice in communal architecture. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 The emergence of food production during the earliest Neolithic of the Near East was accompanied by profound changes in the ways in which societies were organized. Elaborate and multi-stage mortuary practices involving the removal, caching, and plastering
Cheryl A Makarewicz, Bill Finlayson
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Groma, 2022 Funerary archaeology reveals burial practices and the ways in which such mortuary practices can express social identities. The integration of archaeological and anthropological evidence can offer significant data regarding burials.
Debora Ferreri
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The excavation of Non Ban Jak, Northeast Thailand - A report on the first three seasons [PDF]
, 2014 Non Ban Jak is a large, moated site located in the upper Mun Valley, Northeast Thailand. Excavations over three seasons in 2011-4 have revealed a sequence of occupation that covers the final stage of the local Iron Age.
Cameron, Judith +7 more
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Reflecting on loss in Papua New Guinea [PDF]
, 2006 This article takes up the conundrum of conducting anthropological fieldwork with people who claim that they have 'lost their culture,' as is the case with Suau people in the Massim region of Papua New Guinea.
Albert Steve +38 more
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Living with the dead: mummification and post-mortem treatment in Bronze Age Britain
Archaeology International, 2023 A long-recognised problem in British prehistory is the replacement of formal cemeteries and burials from 1600 bce onwards by deposits with disarticulated human remains, many of them found on settlements. At the Bronze Age settlement site of Cladh Hallan
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The Monumental Cemeteries of Northern Pictland [PDF]
, 2017 Peer reviewedPublisher ...
Mitchell, Juliette, Noble, Gordon
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Being Roman: Rethinking Ethnic and Social Boundaries in the Roman South-Eastern Alpine World
Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal, 2018 This paper considers three specific artifact sets and mortuary practices occurring in the Roman south-eastern Alpine world from the first to third centuries ad. These are the ‘Norican-Pannonian’ costume set, the ‘Norican-Pannonian’ barrow phenomenon, and
bernarda zupanek, Philip Mason
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