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 Late Holocene community burial area: Evidence of diverse mortuary practices in the Western Cape, South Africa. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2020 Over several decades, human skeletal remains from at least twelve individuals (males, females, children and infants) were recovered from a small area (ca.
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A Comparison of Mortuary Practices among the Tucson Basin Hohokam and Trincheras Traditions
American Antiquity, 2021 Mortuary rituals are compared and contrasted in order to better understand social interaction between the Tucson Basin Hohokam of southern Arizona and the Trincheras tradition populations of northern Sonora.
J. Cerezo-Román
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European Journal of Archaeology, 2022 Recently rediscovered photographs of the remains of thirteen individuals buried in the Sado Valley Mesolithic shell middens of Poças de S. Bento and Arapouco, excavated in 1960 and 1962, show the potential of revisiting excavation archives with new ...
R. Peyroteo-Stjerna +3 more
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Body donor programs in Australia and New Zealand: Current status and future opportunities. [PDF]
Anat Sci EducAbstract 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.
Jenkin RA, Keay KA.
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Documenta Praehistorica, 2010 This article presents the first synthesis of the evidence for a diverse range of mortuary practices across the British Isles, and an interpretation of what they suggest about understandings of the body, relatedness, personhood and ancestry in Early ...
Chris Fowler
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Evidence for local roots of the owners of the First Dynasty elite tombs at Abu Rawash [PDF]
Pražské Egyptologické Studie, 2022 The status tombs at cemetery M at Abu Rawash share design and layout of the superstructures with elite tombs at other locations, the owners of these tombs are associated with the higher echelons of the state administration in the First Dynasty.
Marinus Ormeling
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Complexity and coherence [PDF]
, 2012 Leslie Topp traces the emergence of the asylum mortuary as an architectural challenge. Drawing on new archival research, Complexity and Coherence: The Challenge of the Asylum Mortuary in Central Europe, 1898–1908 unpacks the highly fraught combination of
Topp, Leslie
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Decorating the Neolithic: an Evaluation of the Use of Plaster in the Enhancement of Daily Life in the Middle Pre-pottery Neolithic B of the Southern Levant [PDF]
, 2012 During the Middle Pre-pottery Neolithic B in the southern Levant the use of lime plaster in both ritual and domestic contexts increased significantly relative to previous periods.
Clarke, Joanne
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Une nécropole du Bronze final IIb à Saint-Epvre « Le Bois de Saint-Epvre » (Moselle)
Revue Archéologique de l’Est, 2010 cemetery, cremation burials, mortuary practices, pottery, Late Bronze Age IIbTrial trenches carried out on the LGV est rail track has brought to light a small cremation cemetery dating to the Late Bronze Age IIb period.
Stéphane Lenda +2 more
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