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Mortuary behaviour and cultural practices in pre-colonial West Central Africa: new data from the Iroungou burial cave, Gabon [PDF]

open access: bronze, 2021
Sébastien Villotte   +8 more
openalex   +1 more source

CULTURAL FUSION IN LATE BRONZE AGE GOLDWORK: DIADEMS AND MOUTH‐PIECES FROM HALA SULTAN TEKKE, CYPRUS

open access: yesOxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 151-179, May 2026.
Summary This study investigates recently discovered gold diadems and mouth‐pieces from seven chamber tombs and one shaft tomb at the Late Bronze Age cemetery of Hala Sultan Tekke, dating from the fifteenth to the thirteenth centuries BC. The chamber tombs, all containing multi‐generational burials, yielded a variety of ornaments, which are analysed in ...
Peter M. Fischer
wiley   +1 more source

The key image of interpretation of funerary rituals A study of ancient Egyptian iconography

open access: yesEstudios de Teoría Literaria, 2022
In Pharaonic Egypt, the funerary context constitutes a material structure to ensure the life in the Hereafter not only to the deceased, but to the whole community, since it perpetuates its values and behavior patterns through the ritual practices.
Silvana Lorena Yomaha   +1 more
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Los vecinos de Nasca: entierros de la tradición Huarato del valle de Acarí, Perú

open access: yesBulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2006
In this paper I report results of the recent archaeological research carried out at three Early Intermediate Period sites in the Acari Valley, on the south coast of Peru.
Lidio M. Valdez
doaj   +1 more source

Pagans and Christians at the frontier: Viking burial in the Danelaw [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
[FIRST PARAGRAPH] The Vikings are the victims of cultural stereotyping (see e.g. Wawn 2000). In the popular imagination they provide the comic-book archetypal pagans: marauding shaggy war bands living and dying by the sword, with no respect for person or
Richards, J.D.
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Le Nord Mosellan à l ’époque mérovingienne : un nouveau bilan

open access: yesRevue Archéologique de l’Est, 2019
It has been a long time since the North Mosellan during the Merovingian period has been the object of a global study. An update of the synthesis previously published here is now necessary. The aim is to both take into account the latest research advances,
Alain Simmer
doaj   +1 more source

Invisible death rites in the early Neolithic: Results of an archaeothanatological analysis of funerary practices in Linearbandkeramik settlements

open access: yesBulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris
In the study of funerary practices, grave goods have traditionally been considered the key form of evidence. This is no less true for the early Neolithic of central Europe, where material cultural evidence from graves has dominated discussions on all ...
Iseabail Wilks   +6 more
doaj  

Tangihanga: The ultimate form of Māori cultural expression - overview of a research programme [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Death, observed through the process of tangihanga (time set aside to grieve and mourn, rites for the dead) or tangi (to grieve and mourn), is the ultimate form of Māori cultural expression.
Maxwell, Te Kahautu   +7 more
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