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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, Anere David Lusa, Armstrong W. A., Battaglia Debbora, Bergendorff Steen, Bolton Lissant, Brown Michael F., Damon Frederick H., de Coppet Daniel, Demian Melissa, Demian Melissa, Demian Melissa, Epstein A. L., Errington Frederick, Foster Robert J., Geschiere Peter, Jolly Margaret, Keesing Roger M., Macintyre Martha, Mallett Shelley, McDowell Nancy, Melissa Demian, Mosko Mark, Mosko Mark, Munn Nancy, Narokobi Bernard, Prendergast Patricia A., Sanders Todd, Stasch Rupert, Strathern Marilyn, Strathern Marilyn, Toft Susan, Tonkinson Robert, Wagner Roy, Weiner James, Wetherell David, Williams F. E., Young Michael, Young Michael   +38 more
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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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‘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 ...
Adams B, Akerman J Y, Aldsworth F, Annable F K, Blair J, Blair J, Bloch M, Boyle A, Boyle A, Brookes S J, Buckberry J, Campbell J, Cook A M, Corney A, Crawford S, Crawford S, Crawford S, Crawford S, Crawford S, Crawford S, Dickinson T, Down A, Drinkall G, Duncan H, DUNCAN SAYER, Evison V I, Evison V I, Evison V I, Evison V I, Evison V I, Gilchrist R, Glass H, Glenn J, Goody J, Green B, Green B, Hamerow H, Haughton C, Hawkes S C, Hawkes S C, Hawkes S C, Hills C, Hills C, Hirst S, Hunn A, Härke H, Härke H, Jackes M, Kinsley A G, Lee C, Leeds E T, Liddle P, Lucy S, Lucy S, Lucy S, Lyle M, Malim T, Matthews C L, Merbs C, Murray A C, Musty J, Pader E-J, Parfitt K, Parfitt K, Pasternak B, Penn K, Penn K, Perkins D R J, Ravn M, Richardson A, Sayer D, Sayer D, Scheschkewitz J, Scheuer L, Seebohn F, Semple S, Shennan S, Sherlock S J, Stenton F, Stoodley N, Thompson V, Timby J, UNICEF, WHO, World Bank, UN Population Division, Van Gennep A, Warhurst A, West S E, Whitelock D, Williams H, Williams P, York B   +89 more
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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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Radiocarbon dates from the Highland Jar and Coffin burial site of Phnom Khnang Peung, Cardamom Mountains, Cambodia [PDF]

, 2015
The Cardamom Mountain Jar and Coffin burial site of Phnom Khnang Peung is the most extensive example of the distinctive burial ritual first reported by Beavan et al. (2012a).
Beavan, Nancy, Hamilton, Derek, Sayle, Kerry, Sokha, Tep   +3 more
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Evidence for deliberate burial of the dead by Homo naledi

eLife
In 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, Tebogo Vincent Makhubela, Keneiloe Molopyane, Ashley Krüger, Patrick Randolph-Quinney, Marina Elliott, Becca Peixotto, Agustín Fuentes, Paul Tafforeau, Vincent Beyrand, Kathleen Dollman, Zubair Jinnah, Angharad Brewer Gillham, Kenneth Broad, Juliet Brophy, Gideon Chinamatira, Paul HGM Dirks, Elen Feuerriegel, Alia Gurtov, Nompumelelo Hlophe, Lindsay Hunter, Rick Hunter, Kudakwashe Jakata, Corey Jaskolski, Hannah Morris, Ellie Pryor, Maropeng Mpete, Eric M Roberts, Jacqueline S Smilg, Mathabela Tsikoane, Steven Tucker, Dirk Van Rooyen, Kerryn Warren, Colin D Wren, Marc Kissel, Penny Spikins, John Hawks   +36 more
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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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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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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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