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Secondary burial and mummification practices in the Kingdom of the two Sicilies
Mortality, 2010Abstract The ancient concepts of death as duration and the practices of secondary burial, first analysed by Robert Hertz, still survive in many areas of southern Italy. According to these beliefs death was perceived not as a sudden event, but as a long-lasting process, during which the deceased person had to go through a transitory phase, passing from ...
Valentina Giuffra
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Diachronic variation in secondary burial practices in Bronze and Iron Age Moravia
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2018Abstract The transition from inhumation to cremation is a well-documented phenomenon in Bronze Age Central Europe. However, almost nothing is known about similar transitions taking place in other mortuary practices, such as secondary burials. This study brings new insights into diachronic trends in secondary burials during the Central European Bronze
Anna Pankowská
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Imerina Famadihana as a secondary burial
Archipel, 1974II. 1. Susan McGeorge analyses the Malagasy Merina custom of secondary burial (famadihana) as the decisive step which brings the deceased from a liminal state to the world of the ancestors.
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Pauline Baptism and “Secondary Burial”
Harvard Theological Review, 1986It is curious that, despite Paul's representation of baptism as a burial (Rom 6:3–4; cf. Col 2:12), his understanding of baptism has not been considered in terms of funerary rites. Rather, the symbolic and initiatory character of baptismal burial, together with its close association with the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ, has for about a ...
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Restless corpses: ‘secondary burial’ in the Babenberg and Habsburg dynasties
Antiquity, 2001The historically documented burial samples of the Babenberg and Habsburg dynasties allow a detailed analysis of the circumstances that led to dismemberment, evisceration, disturbance, exhumation and reburial over a millennium. The results may provide deeper and more broadly applicable insights into relevant cultural formation processes of élite burials.
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Burial and secondary dispersal of small seeds in a tropical forest
Journal of Tropical Ecology, 2008Abstract:Secondary dispersal is an important stage in the life cycle of tree species, determining the fate of a high proportion of all seeds. For small-seeded species both physical and biological processes may influence the secondary fate of seeds, however the relative importance of these processes is not well known.
Toby R. Marthews +3 more
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Bioarchaeology International, 2019
Archaeologists working in various contexts around the world frequently label human remains found in a commingled, fragmented state as “secondary burials” without consideration of the processes by which they form. This unevaluated categorization can lead to inaccurate generalizations and poorly theorized interpretations. Here, I evaluate burial deposits
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Archaeologists working in various contexts around the world frequently label human remains found in a commingled, fragmented state as “secondary burials” without consideration of the processes by which they form. This unevaluated categorization can lead to inaccurate generalizations and poorly theorized interpretations. Here, I evaluate burial deposits
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The space of man’s death. A modern age secondary burial case in northern Italy
HOMO, 2019Much of the recent archaeological and anthropological research on Italian modern age secondary burials has focused primarily on source analysis and the funerary context descriptions. To enable a clearer understanding of these atypical burials we need more archaeological data.
Licata M. +4 more
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