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Cemeteries on a moving frontier: Mortuary practices and the spread of pastoralism from the Sahara into eastern Africa

open access: yesJournal of Anthropological Archaeology, 2018
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Disinfection and biomedical waste management: Mortuary practices during COVID-19

Journal of Indian Academy of Forensic Medicine, 2020
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID19 outbreak as a "pandemic" on 11 March 2020 Till date, crores of cases have been registered across the world, and India stands second behind the USA with more than 90 lakhs cases till date COVID-19 ...
T. Kanchan, N. Ateriya, Vikas P. Meshram
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‘Symbolically Overloaded’ Burials: Early Fourth-Millennium bc Hunter-Fisher-Gatherer Mortuary Practices from North-Eastern Europe

European Journal of Archaeology
At the beginning of the fourth millennium bc, the Typical Comb Ware culture (TCW) emerged in north-eastern Europe. One of its characteristics is a wealth of ‘amber’ or ‘ochre’ graves and mortuary practices. This article concerns the graves’ key elements,
Marja Ahola, A. Macāne, K. Nordqvist
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Great Lakes Copper and Shared Mortuary Practices on the Atlantic Coast: Implications for Long-Distance Exchange during the Late Archaic

American Antiquity, 2019
Analysis of human remains and a copper band found in the center of a Late Archaic (ca. 5000–3000 cal BP) shell ring demonstrate an exchange network between the Great Lakes and the coastal southeast United States.
Matthew C. Sanger   +11 more
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Complexity in Arikara Mortuary Practice

Plains Anthropologist, 1978
Traditionally, Arikara mortuary practice has been described as direct interment soon after death in wood-covered pits.
D H, Ubelaker, P, Willey
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Disarticulation, evisceration and excarnation: Neolithic mortuary practices at Dingsishan, southern China

Antiquity
The diversity of human mortuary practices and treatments in prehistory is widely recognised, but our understanding of the purpose and manner of corpse manipulation in many regions is limited.
Ziqi Ye   +3 more
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Cultural and chronological variation in Woodland and Mississippian mortuary practices on the edge of Greater Cahokia

Southeastern Archaeology
Efforts were initiated in the mid-1990s to resolve complex questions of context, chronology, and identity of American Indian ancestral sites and individuals in the American Bottom, Illinois.
Thomas E. Emerson   +2 more
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Mortuary Practices, Cultural Context, Bayesian Chronology, and Maize Consumption among Terminal Late Woodland Societies in Northeastern Illinois

Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, 2019
In 1940, Gretchen Cutter and a WPA crew conducted excavations in the Mound Wio5 at the Fisher site in Will County, Illinois. We examined those materials as part of our reanalysis of the Fisher site excavations by George Langford and the University of ...
T. Emerson   +3 more
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Mortuary Practices

2022
Abstract Rituals surrounding the treatment and disposal of fellow humans are recurrent features of human culture. Many practices are time-consuming, expensive, elaborate, and even dangerous. Why then do people perform mortuary rituals? Anthropological and sociological researchers have long asserted that mortuary rituals confer tangible ...
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Mortuary practice

2017
This chapter focuses on the functions which may be fulfilled by a mortuary and post-mortem facility. These include receipt and storage of the deceased; investigation of the cause and/or circumstances of death by performing a post-mortem examination of the deceased; demonstration of post-mortem findings to clinical staff and to allow teaching; and ...
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