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Une nécropole du Bronze final IIb à Saint-Epvre « Le Bois de Saint-Epvre » (Moselle)

open access: yesRevue Archéologique de l’Est, 2010
cemetery, cremation burials, mortuary practices, pottery, Late Bronze Age IIbTrial trenches carried out on the LGV est rail track has brought to light a small cremation cemetery dating to the Late Bronze Age IIb period.
Stéphane Lenda   +2 more
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Mortuary Landscapes Revisited: Dynamics of Insularity and Connectivity in Mortuary Ritual, Feasting, and Commemoration in Late Bronze Age Cyprus

open access: yesReligions, 2021
The aim of the paper is to discuss mortuary contexts and possible related ritual features as parts of sacred landscapes in Late Bronze Age Cyprus. Since the island was an important node in the Eastern Mediterranean economic network, it will be explored ...
Teresa Bürge
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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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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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(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
doaj   +1 more source

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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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

Funerary rites in a Neolithic nomad community in Southeastern Arabia: the case of al-Buhais 18

open access: yesDocumenta 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]

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
doaj   +1 more source

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