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The autopsy and mortuary practice
1991Autopsy (also known as necropsy or post-mortem examination) — the examination of the organs and tissues after death — has been practised for many thousands of years. The embalmers of Pharaonic Egypt possessed some anatomical knowledge. Roman and Greek army surgeons obtained their knowledge through the dissection of battlefield casualties.
Jennifer Green, Michael Green
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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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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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Changes in Navajo Mortuary Practices and Beliefs
American Indian Quarterly, 1978There is an accelerating trend for change from traditional burial practices to full Christian funerals on the Navajo Reservation today. Two other types of mortuary practices intervene between the extremes: modified traditional, that is, a Navajo burial with Christian elements added, and modified Christian, a church funeral with traditional elements ...
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Mortuary practices at the Krapina Neandertal site
American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 1987AbstractIt has often been reported that the Krapina Neandertal remains bear incised linear striations which appear to be cutmarks. Here, the plausibility of the striations as cutmarks is tested by comparing them to Mousterian butchery marks on large fauna and to cutmarks on modern human skeletons known to have been defleshed with stone tools.
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Mortuary practices on children
1996This 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
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Mortuary Practices: Their Study and Their Potential
Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology, 1971AbstractThe explanations of burial customs provided by previous anthropologists are examined at length together with the assumptions and data orientations that lay behind them. Both the assumptions and explanations are shown to be inadequate from the point of view of systems theory and from a detailed examination of the empirical record.
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The Owl in Phoenician Mortuary Practice
Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions, 2009AbstractRecent excavations in the Iron Age necropolis of Tyre (al-Bass district) allow a substantial reconstruction of the Phoenician ritual of cremation burial. Among the faunal remains from Tyre al-Bass Tomb 8 are two talons from a species of owl. The talons had been charred and perhaps boiled before placement with the grave goods.
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Mortuary practices, problems, and analysis
2015Archaeological investigation is sometimes likened to opening a window on to the past. The problem is that, except in cases of unexpected and sudden disaster, for example where a shipwreck has been preserved untouched or a town was engulfed by volcanic ash, the archaeologist never examines a site as it was in its living heyday, only as it was after it ...
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