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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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Early Dilmun Burial Mounds in Bahrain: the Wâdî al-Sail Archaeological Project and the Dilmun Mapping Project

Arabian Humanities
This 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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In search of past identities

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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‘Sons of athelings given to the earth’: Infant Mortality within Anglo-Saxon Mortuary Geography [PDF]

, 2014
FOR 20 OR MORE YEARS early Anglo-Saxon archaeologists have believed children are underrepresented in the cemetery evidence. They conclude that excavation misses small bones, that previous attitudes to reporting overlook the very young, or that infants ...
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Forgotten Traces of the Buddhist Incantation Spell Practice from Early Korea: Amulet Sheets of the Incantation of Wish-Fulfillment (Mahāpratisarā) from Silla

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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Caveat Emptor:On Time, Death and History in Late Modernity [PDF]

, 2004
This article focuses on 'revivalism' and 'resurrectionism'. While the former is a sociological label for contemporary rituals of dying and death, the latter is a label for contemporary practices of historiographical representation.
Palladino, Paolo
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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, Joanne L. Wright, Shaun Adams, Michael C. Westaway, Michael C. Westaway, Clarence Flinders, Eske Willerslev, Eske Willerslev, Eske Willerslev, David Lambert   +9 more
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Provisioning the Ritual Neolithic Site of Kfar HaHoresh, Israel at the Dawn of Animal Management. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
It is widely agreed that a pivotal shift from wild animal hunting to herd animal management, at least of goats, began in the southern Levant by the Middle Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period (10,000-9,500 cal. BP) when evidence of ritual activities flourished
Jacqueline S Meier, A Nigel Goring-Morris, Natalie D Munro   +2 more
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Practicalities of Grief and Commemoration: Accounting for Variation in Cremation Practices in Africa Proconsularis

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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Build n burn: using fire as a tool to evoke, educate and entertain [PDF]

, 2017
The visceral nature of fire was exploited in the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods in Britain by the burning down of timber buildings and monuments, as well as the cremation of the dead. These big fires would have created memories, perhaps even ‘flashbulb
Brophy, Kenneth, Goeckeritz, Corinna, MacGregor, Gavin   +2 more
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