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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
doaj   +1 more source

Why dig looted tombs? Two examples and some answers from Keushu (Ancash highlands, Peru) [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Cultivating Corpses: A Comparative Approach to Disembodied Mortuary Remains

open access: yesCurrent 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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A unique human-fox burial from a pre-Natufian cemetery in the Levant (Jordan). [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS 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   +5 more
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Reflecting on loss in Papua New Guinea [PDF]

open access: yes, 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   +38 more
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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

open access: yesDocumenta 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
doaj   +1 more source

The excavation of Non Ban Jak, Northeast Thailand - A report on the first three seasons [PDF]

open access: yes, 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   +7 more
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Mesolithic cremations as secondary mortuary practices at Vlasac (Serbia)

open access: yesDocumenta 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   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Monumental Cemeteries of Northern Pictland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Peer reviewedPublisher ...
Mitchell, Juliette, Noble, Gordon
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Inca Mortuary Practices. Material Accounts of Death in Quebrada De Humahuaca at the Time of the Empire

open access: yesGlobal Journal of Archaeology & Anthropology, 2019
The analysis of mortuary practices allows us to approach several aspects of the societies in which they occurred, reflecting not only the memory of the group but also the socio-political and economical processes of it.
Agustina Scaro
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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