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Mortuary practices on children [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
This study is a reevaluation of past theories that recommend the use of mortuary practices to determine rank within cultures as applied to children. A comparative study of 40 cultures world wide is conducted using the Human Relation Area Files for ethnographic examples of mortuary practices. Funerary and mourning rituals performed for both children and
Fox, Stephanie Jo
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Landscapes and Mortuary Practices

Interdisciplinary Contributions To Archaeology, 1995
Archaeologists have understood the value and necessity of a regional approach for a number of years, with the application of regional studies focused primarily on settlements. However, a regional approach is equally valuable in the study of mortuary practices.
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Mortuary Practices [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Mortuary rituals, as culturally learned and reproduced practices, emerge among prehistoric hunters and gatherers and persist as a key component of human cultures through time.
Nilsson Stutz, Liv,
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Mortuary Practices, Bodies, and Persons in Northern Europe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This chapter provides a brief overview of practices involving human remains during the period c. 4000–2200 BC in northern Europe, with an emphasis on Denmark and southern Sweden.
Karl-Göran Sjögren
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Farewell to the Young: Early Iron Age Mortuary Practices in the Middle Danube Region [PDF]

open access: yesChildhood in the Past
The study of burials and mortuary practices in the past provides essential information on the role and treatment of children in past communities. This study aims to better understand the status of children by reviewing the material culture provided
Daria Ložnjak Dizdar   +1 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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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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