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PRÁTICAS FUNERÁRIAS NA ARQUEOLOGIA: Pluralidades e Patrimônio

open access: yesClio Arqueológica, 2018
Este artigo apresenta algumas considerações sobre a importância do estudo das práticas funerárias na arqueologia, com ênfase, ao final, na questão do cemitério como patrimônio.
Maria Aparecida da Silva Oliveira
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The Southern Frontier of the Meroitic State: The View from Jebel Moya [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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(Un)Usual Neolithic and Early Eneolithic mortuary practices in the area of the North Carpathian Basin

open access: yesDocumenta 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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Assessment of occupational health and safety practices at government mortuaries in Gauteng Province: a cross-sectional study

open access: yesThe Pan African Medical Journal, 2021
INTRODUCTION: Hospital mortuaries are responsible for the receipt and storage of deceased people. This exposes mortuary workers to a variety of health and safety hazards, which include physical, chemical, ergonomics, biological and psychosocial hazards ...
Mapula Luckyjane Molewa   +3 more
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The Spirit World & North American Indian Mortuary Practices

open access: yesRevista 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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Serious mortality: the date of the Fussell's Lodge long barrow [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Living with the dead: mummification and post-mortem treatment in Bronze Age Britain

open access: yesArchaeology 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
doaj   +2 more sources

Memory, tradition, and Christianization of the Peloponnese [PDF]

open access: yes, 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]

open access: yesFolklor/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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Sister Death and the Care of All Creation: A Franciscan Argument for Green Burial

open access: yesReligions, 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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