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Death’s drama: mortuary practice in Vikings Season 1–4 [PDF]
, 2019 Inspired by later medieval sagas and Viking Age historical sources, but underpinned and enriched by archaeological evidence and themes, the History channel’s Vikings (2013–) is a unique drama series explor- ing the late eighth/early ninth century ...
Williams, Howard
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Social Changes in Kyrghyz Mortuary Practice [PDF]
, 1999 This article views changes in the rituals of death in the context of Kyghyzstan’s dramatic sociopolitical transformation from a clan-based society, through socialist modernisation, to the ill-defined post-Socialist present.
Kochi Okada
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Plants in Burials: The Roman Iron Age Īles mežs Barrow Cemetery (Southern Latvia)
Open ArchaeologyPalaeobotanical analysis of the Īles mežs cemetery (southern Latvia) provides new insights into the role of plants in Roman Iron Age funerary traditions.
Guščika Elīna, Stivrins Normunds
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Terendak Military Cemetery: Bodies, Burials, and ‘Operation Bring Them Home'
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.Terendak Military Cemetery occupies an unusual position in the history of Australian war cemeteries. Initially established to service the needs of the community at Terendak Garrison—the operational base for Commonwealth forces in Malaya during the early years of the Cold War—it became the official overseas burial site of Australian dead during the ...
Hannah Swaine, Kate Ariotti
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Wallace Carmichael Murchison [PDF]
, 2013 Photograph used by Andrews Mortuary in Mr. Murchison's obituary. Wallace Carmichael Murchison (1919-2013) was born in Wilmington, NC. He is the son of Wilmington doctor, David Reid Murchison.
Andrews Mortuary
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Containing Histories Past and Present: Making Samples in the “Huntington Collection” (1893–1921)
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Huntington Anatomical Collection (1893–1921) includes the skeletal remains of immigrants, migrants, and lifelong New York City residents. The collection's formation was coeval with the formalization of physical anthropology, and the collection was made to serve research aims centered on race and origin.
Alanna L. Warner‐Smith
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Adapting to Change: The Dynamic Crop Production Systems of Smallholder Farmers in the PNG Highlands
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Smallholder sweet potato farmers in Papua New Guinea's Eastern Highlands Province (EHP) face challenges as they navigate social, economic, demographic, and environmental change. While they routinely adapt to weather variability and shifting markets, population growth is placing additional strain on an already finely balanced farming system ...
Geoff Kuehne +9 more
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Skeletal Biology and Mortuary Practice at the Kubinski Site (11WI1186), a Middle Woodland Ossuary [PDF]
, 2007 To date, the preponderance of studies of mortuary practice in the Middle Woodland period have focused on materials from sites in southern Ohio and the lower Illinois River valley.
Demel, Scott J, Ph.D.
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Ritual Practice at Late Iron-Age and Viking-Age Cemeteries in Norway: The Mortuary Houses From Skeiet, Vinjeøra [PDF]
THREE PROPOSED LATE IRON- AND VIKING-AGE MORTUARY HOUSES were recently excavated in Central Norway. Excavations and geoarchaeological investigations imply underground wooden buildings resembling domestic houses with doors.
Macphail, Richard I., Sauvage, Raymond
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines Wari obsidian production in a cache of 39 bifaces found at the Late Moche site of San José de Moro (Jequetepeque Valley, North Coast of Peru, 700–850 ad). Portable X‐ray fluorescence, geometric morphometric, and technological analyses were used to investigate raw material provenance and bifacial production.
Antonio Pérez‐Balarezo +2 more
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