Talking Dead. New burials from Tron Bon Lei (Alor Island, Indonesia) inform on the evolution of mortuary practices from the terminal Pleistocene to the Holocene in Southeast Asia. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 Burial elaborations are a human behaviour that, in recent contexts can inform on social diversification, belief systems, and the introduction of new practices resulting from migration or cultural transmission.
Sofia C Samper-Carro +4 more
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Animals in Mortuary Practices of Bronze-Age Pastoral Societies: Caprine Use at the Site of Dunping in Northwestern China [PDF]
Animals, 2023 The late second and first millennium BC witnessed extensive economic, cultural, and political exchanges between pastoralists and sedentary farming states in East Asia. Decades of archaeological fieldwork across northern China have revealed a large number
Yue Li +8 more
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Slab Grave expansion disrupted long co-existence of distinct Bronze Age herders in central Mongolia [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsDairy pastoralism reached Mongolia during the Early Bronze Age and flourished in the Late Bronze Age alongside the emergence of diverse mortuary practices, including the Deer Stone-Khirgisuur Complex and figure-shaped/Ulaanzuukh burials. While the spread
Juhyeon Lee +10 more
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Bacterial contamination and infection control practices in the mortuary at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital, Uganda [PDF]
Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare EpidemiologyBackground: Increasing evidence demonstrates that medical personnel and the clinical environment such as surfaces and equipment are often sources of infections.
Edwina Patience Wagido +14 more
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Decoding Natufian mortuary practices through the taphonomy of an experimental burial [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe intentional burial of the dead emerged around 120,000 years ago, but it was with the Levantine Natufian culture (ca. 15 ka BP) that we see stone-constructed graves in designated burial sites. The Natufian investment of effort and resources prompts an
Nira Alperson-Afil, Rivka Rabinovich
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Impact of COVID-19 on celebration of death, mortuary, and funerary customs in Bangladesh: A qualitative study [PDF]
HeliyonIntroduction: During the COVID-19 pandemic, restrictions significantly impacted religious activities related to death celebrations, mortuary practices, and funerary rituals in Bangladesh.
Md Abdur Rahman +5 more
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Cultural factors that affected the spatial and temporal epidemiology of kuru [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 Kuru is a prion disease which became epidemic among the Fore and surrounding linguistic groups in Papua New Guinea, peaking in the late 1950s. It was transmitted during the transumption (endocannibalism) of dead family members at mortuary feasts. In this
J. T. Whitfield +3 more
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Open Archaeology, 2022 In Chinese mortuary research, too much reliance on traditional qualitative typological analysis renders quantitative attributes of mortuary practice data ignored. Examining the Taosi cemetery one of the famous cemeteries of Neolithic China (2300–1900 BC),
Bai Yang
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Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología, 2022 From a gender perspective and through contextual and bioarchaeological studies of women found in the Pucará de Tilcara, Quebrada de Humahuaca, we propose to analyze and determine differences in social status and funerary practices.
Clarisa Otero, Maria Laura Fuchs
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Religions, 2021 The aim of the paper is to discuss mortuary contexts and possible related ritual features as parts of sacred landscapes in Late Bronze Age Cyprus. Since the island was an important node in the Eastern Mediterranean economic network, it will be explored ...
Teresa Bürge
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