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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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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, Joanne L. Wright, Shaun Adams, Michael C. Westaway, Michael C. Westaway, Clarence Flinders, Eske Willerslev, Eske Willerslev, Eske Willerslev, David Lambert   +9 more
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A unique human-fox burial from a pre-Natufian cemetery in the Levant (Jordan). [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2011
New human burials from northern Jordan provide important insights into the appearance of cemeteries and the nature of human-animal relationships within mortuary contexts during the Epipalaeolithic period (c.
Lisa A Maher, Jay T Stock, Sarah Finney, James J N Heywood, Preston T Miracle, Edward B Banning   +5 more
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The excavation of Non Ban Jak, Northeast Thailand - A report on the first three seasons [PDF]

, 2014
Non Ban Jak is a large, moated site located in the upper Mun Valley, Northeast Thailand. Excavations over three seasons in 2011-4 have revealed a sequence of occupation that covers the final stage of the local Iron Age.
Cameron, Judith, Castillo, Cristina, Chang, Nigel, Halcrow, Sian, Higham, Charles, O'Reilly, Dougald, Petchey, Fiona, Shewan, Louise   +7 more
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The Monumental Cemeteries of Northern Pictland [PDF]

, 2017
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Mitchell, Juliette, Noble, Gordon
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Creating identities in the mortuary arena of the Greek Final Neolithic: a contextual definition of practices in Central and Southern Greece

Documenta Praehistorica, 2012
It is generally accepted that the Greek Final Neolithic witnessed many social and economic changes. However, few studies have explored the archaeological material of the period in a systematic and fully contextual manner.
Katerina Psimogiannou
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Reflecting on loss in Papua New Guinea [PDF]

, 2006
This article takes up the conundrum of conducting anthropological fieldwork with people who claim that they have 'lost their culture,' as is the case with Suau people in the Massim region of Papua New Guinea.
Albert Steve, Anere David Lusa, Armstrong W. A., Battaglia Debbora, Bergendorff Steen, Bolton Lissant, Brown Michael F., Damon Frederick H., de Coppet Daniel, Demian Melissa, Demian Melissa, Demian Melissa, Epstein A. L., Errington Frederick, Foster Robert J., Geschiere Peter, Jolly Margaret, Keesing Roger M., Macintyre Martha, Mallett Shelley, McDowell Nancy, Melissa Demian, Mosko Mark, Mosko Mark, Munn Nancy, Narokobi Bernard, Prendergast Patricia A., Sanders Todd, Stasch Rupert, Strathern Marilyn, Strathern Marilyn, Toft Susan, Tonkinson Robert, Wagner Roy, Weiner James, Wetherell David, Williams F. E., Young Michael, Young Michael   +38 more
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Mesolithic cremations as secondary mortuary practices at Vlasac (Serbia)

Documenta Praehistorica, 2009
In the course of recent excavations of the Mesolithic-Neolithic site of Vlasac, new light has been shed on the mortuary practices and ritualistic behaviour of the Danube Gorges foragers on the basis of human remains with evidence of diverse treatments of
Dušan Borić, Jelena Raičević, Sofija Stefanović   +2 more
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A Second Mortuary Hiatus on Lake Baikal in Siberia and the Arrival of Small-Scale Pastoralism [PDF]

, 2017
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Kharinskii, Artur A., Losey, Robert J., Nomokonova, Tatiana, Waters-Rist, Andrea L.   +3 more
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Du cadavre à l’oubli

Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2013
The end of the burial time is difficult to grasp. Archaeology can never restore the process of loss of a deceased memory. However, it raises questions about the future of human remains in a burial site. They remain for a time the support of the memory of
Arnaud Blin, Philippe Chambon
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