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Cultivating Corpses: A Comparative Approach to Disembodied Mortuary Remains
Current Swedish Archaeology, 2004 Disembodied remains of corpses are often found in the archaeological record but seldom interpreted and understood. This mortuary practice challenges our traditional understanding of funerals and what constitutcs a "grave". Through a comparative analysis
Anders Kaliff, Terje Oestigaard
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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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A unique human-fox burial from a pre-Natufian cemetery in the Levant (Jordan). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 New human burials from northern Jordan provide important insights into the appearance of cemeteries and the nature of human-animal relationships within mortuary contexts during the Epipalaeolithic period (c.
Lisa A Maher +5 more
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Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2013 The end of the burial time is difficult to grasp. Archaeology can never restore the process of loss of a deceased memory. However, it raises questions about the future of human remains in a burial site. They remain for a time the support of the memory of
Arnaud Blin, Philippe Chambon
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Mesolithic cremations as secondary mortuary practices at Vlasac (Serbia)
Documenta Praehistorica, 2009 In the course of recent excavations of the Mesolithic-Neolithic site of Vlasac, new light has been shed on the mortuary practices and ritualistic behaviour of the Danube Gorges foragers on the basis of human remains with evidence of diverse treatments of
Dušan Borić +2 more
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Para lá dos túmulos e da herança patronímica: práticas judaicas nas ilhas Cabo Verde
Hamsa, 2021 The objective of this article is to study the practices of the jewish’s memory, preservation in Cabo Verde, through the re-lecture of the tomb stones patrimony still existant today, as a result of the hebrews morrocan’s and gibraltan’s immigration, that ...
Zelinda Cohen
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Body donor programs in Australia and New Zealand: Current status and future opportunities
Anatomical Sciences Education, Volume 18, Issue 3, Page 301-328, March 2025.Abstract Body donation is critical to anatomy study in Australia and New Zealand. Annually, more than 10,000 students, anatomists, researchers, and clinicians access tissue donated by local consented donors through university‐based body donation programs. However, little research has been published about their operations.
Rebekah A. Jenkin, Kevin A. Keay
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Documenta PraehistoricaThis paper presents 17 new 14C dates from the tumulus cemetery of Dubac in Jančići, in western Serbia. Burials were accompanied by bronze personal ornaments and occasionally pottery vessels.
Katarina Dmitrović, Barry Molloy
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Documenta Praehistorica, 2012 It is generally accepted that the Greek Final Neolithic witnessed many social and economic changes. However, few studies have explored the archaeological material of the period in a systematic and fully contextual manner.
Katerina Psimogiannou
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Beyond the grave: Do the dead have rights?
Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.Abstract Anatomists who work with the Dead often see themselves as custodians of the Dead. To those who opine that the Dead no longer have Rights (legal or moral) or privileges and have nothing more to contribute to the development of Society or to human endeavor, the Dead's custodians might respond that there is ample evidence that some Rights and ...
Beverley Kramer, Bernard Moxham
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