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Earliest evidence of sedentism in the Antilles: Multiple isotope data from Canímar Abajo, Cuba. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Chinique de Armas Y   +4 more
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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.
Lynne Goldstein
exaly   +2 more sources

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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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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Time in the reproduction of mortuary practices

World Archaeology, 1993
Abstract This paper argues that the archaeologist can interpret the way time was marked through human practices and manipulated in the reproduction of relations of dominance. It is argued that this task can be accomplished by moving interpretative/analytical emphasis away from the examination of static patterns, and interpreting the way those variables
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