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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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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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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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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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Evidence for deliberate burial of the dead by Homo naledi
eLifeIn this study, we describe new results of excavations in the Dinaledi Subsystem of the Rising Star cave system, South Africa. In two areas within the Hill Antechamber and the Dinaledi Chamber, this work uncovered concentrations of abundant Homo naledi ...
Lee R Berger +36 more
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Arabian HumanitiesThis paper overviews the results of archaeological research by the Japanese mission on the Early Dilmun burial mound sites. The archaeological research on Early Dilmun burial mounds in Bahrain has a history of more than 100 years. Excavations of a number
Masashi Abe, Akinori Uesugi
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Documenta Praehistorica, 2011 This paper discuses the conceptualisation of ‘partible’ and ‘permeable’ dividual personhood in archaeology. It focuses on flows of substances as media which produce relations with others and are used in altering the composition of the person according to
Mihael Budja
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Religions, 2023 Through an investigation of two recently discovered paper sheets of the Incantation of Wish-Fulfillment from the Silla kingdom, this paper reveals that early Korea had more diverse forms of dhāraṇī practices than previously assumed.
Joung Ho Han, Youn-mi Kim
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Insights Into Aboriginal Australian Mortuary Practices: Perspectives From Ancient DNA
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Paleogenetics is a relatively new and promising field that has the potential to provide new information about past Indigenous social systems, including insights into the complexity of burial practices.
Sally Wasef +9 more
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Antiquités Africaines, 2021 As the practice of cremation spread throughout Africa Proconsularis, several localities developed distinctive mortuary customs. Examining three commonly-recognized stages of ritual interaction at these graves (the cremation, the burial, and post-funerary
Jennifer P. Moore, Lea M. Stirling
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