Patterns in the modification of animal and human bones in Iron Age Wessex: revisiting the excarnation debate [PDF]
, 2008 Social practices concerning the treatment of human and animal remains in the Iron Age have long been a focus of debate in archaeological literature. The absence of evidence of a formal burial rite and the regular retrieval of human remains from ‘special’
Madgwick, Richard
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Documentation of Ancestral Caddo Ceramic Vessels from the Harold Williams Site (41CP10), Camp County, Texas [PDF]
, 2017 The Harold Williams site (41CP10) is a large ancestral Caddo community cemetery on Dry Creek in the Big Cypress Creek basin in Camp County, Texas. Caddo burials and associated ceramic vessel funerary offerings have been discovered and dug at the Harold ...
Perttula, Timothy K.
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Ethnoarchaeology of Mortuary Practices
Revista de Arqueología AmericanaDeath is not the end, but rather a beginning. Drawing on historical sources and ethnographic fieldwork with the Wayana Indigenous People of French Guiana, this essay explores the interrelationships embodied during mortuary practices and personal treatment of the dead.
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Proceedings of the African Diaspora Conference on Sustainable Development [PDF]
, 2006 The authors urge the Western donor organizations to facilitate and support the take up of such more sustainable ...
Hyacinth S. Nwana, Joseph H. M. Tah
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Stratifikasi sosial pada masa prasejarah di Bali
Jurnal Kajian Bali (Journal of Bali Studies), 2017 Mortuary practices might have represented social stratification during the prehistoric period in Bali. Disposal treatment of the decease, burial goods, and containers that were utilized for burials may correspond with social identity and social persona ...
I Wayan Ardika +3 more
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Cultural Modifications in an Adolescent Earth-Oven Interment from Fiji: Sorting out Mortuary Practice [PDF]
, 2007 Cochrane, E +3 more
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A child, twelve goats, three sheep, a cow, and a horse
Archeologické RozhledyThe discovery of a child burial in Brno-Slatina containing both complete and disarticulated animal remains represents a unique funerary practice with no direct analogies.
František Trampota +5 more
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The Middle Caddoan Period in East Texas: A Summary of the Findings of the East Texas Caddoan Research Group [PDF]
, 1997 The second meeting of the East Texas Caddoan Research Group (ETCRG) met in San Antonio on October 27, 1996, to consider the archaeology of the Middle Caddoan period in East Texas.
Middlebrook, Tom, Perttula, Timothy K.
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The Changing Features and Functions of Funeral Art Forms in Ibibio Land of Nigeria [PDF]
, 2015 Ibibio funeral art form has developed with the ethnic belief system of ancestral veneration. It has been marked with distinctive indigenization of spatial symbolization of forms to the creation of “nwommo” and cement tomb stone in their quest for ...
E. Umoanwan, Uwem, Nyah, Anselem A.
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Mortuary practices at Cotocotuyoc, Peru
, 2012 Drawing upon original excavation data as well as collaborative research and published anthropological sources, this thesis examines mortuary practices at the site of Cotocotuyoc over a period of time starting with the Middle Horizon (A.O. 550 -1000) and continuing into the Late Intermediate Period/Late Horizon (A.O. I 000 -1452). The site data are used
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