Health and the Experience of Childhood in Late Neolithic Vietnam [PDF]
, 2008 The article aims to examine aspects of mortuary behavior in late Neolithic/early Bronze Age (Phung Nguyen phase) populations represented at the site of Man Bac in Viet Nam, specifically how mortuary behavior illuminates the role of children, and adult ...
Cuong, Nguyen Lan +7 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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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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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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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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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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Cultivating Corpses: A Comparative Approach to Disembodied Mortuary Remains
Current Swedish Archaeology, 2004 Disembodied remains of corpses are often found in the archaeological record but seldom interpreted and understood. This mortuary practice challenges our traditional understanding of funerals and what constitutcs a "grave". Through a comparative analysis
Anders Kaliff, Terje Oestigaard
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Once in a lifetime: the date of the Wayland's Smithy long barrow [PDF]
, 2007 Twenty-three radiocarbon results are now available from the Wayland’s Smithy long barrow, and are presented within an interpretive Bayesian statistical framework.
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Insights Into Aboriginal Australian Mortuary Practices: Perspectives From Ancient DNA
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Paleogenetics is a relatively new and promising field that has the potential to provide new information about past Indigenous social systems, including insights into the complexity of burial practices.
Sally Wasef +9 more
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