The Southern Frontier of the Meroitic State: The View from Jebel Moya [PDF]
, 2014 The site of Jebel Moya, excavated in the early twentieth century, represents arguably the largest pastoral mortuary complex in Africa. Jebel Moya is resituated in relation to the neighbouring Meroitic-era agro-pastoral settlements and the only known ...
Brass, M
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Documenta Praehistorica, 2010 On the basis of the characteristics of Neolithic and Early Eneolithic mortuary practices in the area of North Carpathian Basin it can be argued that the existence of graveyards is an isolated phenomenon.
Alena Bistáková, Noémi Pažinová
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Serious mortality: the date of the Fussell's Lodge long barrow [PDF]
, 2007 Twenty-seven radiocarbon results are now available from the Fussell’s Lodge long barrow, and are presented within an interpretive Bayesian statistical framework.
Bayliss, A +2 more
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The Spirit World & North American Indian Mortuary Practices
Revista Espaço Acadêmico, 2021 From earliest times, North American Indians[i] have shared some significant commonalities. Salient among these is a deep spiritual connection to the natural world.
Grace Keyes
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Living with the dead: mummification and post-mortem treatment in Bronze Age Britain
Archaeology International, 2023 A long-recognised problem in British prehistory is the replacement of formal cemeteries and burials from 1600 bce onwards by deposits with disarticulated human remains, many of them found on settlements. At the Bronze Age settlement site of Cladh Hallan
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Memory, tradition, and Christianization of the Peloponnese [PDF]
, 2015 This work examines the use of memory and tradition in the Christianization of the Peloponnese based on the evidence of the location and topography of churches.
Sweetman, Rebecca Jane
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DEMOGRAPHICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF TEPECİK-ÇİFTLİK NEOLITHIC POPULATION / TEPECİK-ÇİFTLİK NEOLİTİK TOPLULUĞUNUN DEMOGRAFİK ÖZELLİKLERİ [PDF]
Folklor/Edebiyat, 2017 In this study, the demographic structure of the Tepecik-Çiftlik community, which dates back to the Neolithic period, is examined. The study material consists of approximately 170 individual residues.
Ali Metin BÜYÜKKARAKAYA
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Funerary rites in a Neolithic nomad community in Southeastern Arabia: the case of al-Buhais 18
Documenta Praehistorica, 2008 Al-Buhais 18 is a Neolithic site in the United Arab Emirates. It consists of a graveyard with more than 420 individuals, an ancient spring, and a campsite. It is interpreted as a central place for a group of mobile herders in the 5th millennium BC.
Roland de Beauclair
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Sister Death and the Care of All Creation: A Franciscan Argument for Green Burial
Religions, 2022 Since Jessica Mitford’s 1963 scathing critique of the mortuary business in the United States, there has been an ongoing debate about how best to honor and dispose of the dead in ways that do not exploit people. However, the backlash to predatory mortuary
Darleen Pryds
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Why dig looted tombs? Two examples and some answers from Keushu (Ancash highlands, Peru) [PDF]
, 2010 Looted tombs at Andean archaeological sites are largely the result of a long tradition of trade in archaeological artefacts coupled with the 17th century policy of eradicating ancestor veneration and destroying mortuary evidence in a bid to “extirpate ...
A. Gallay +27 more
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