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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Burial Practices"”.
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Burial Practices in Southern Appalachia.
… in an attempt to determine whether certain burial practices are unique to the people of Southern Appalachia. Eight individuals were interviewed, including a minister and a funeral director. As a result of the research, it was found that, although a strong sense of community and religion …
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Sheol and Pre-exilic Palestinian Burial Practices
Th. M., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1965 ; Made available through permission of the author
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Burial Practices in Transition: A study of the cultural and religious cohesion of Early Medieval Europe
In the seventh century AD, burial practice fundamentally changed across northern and western Europe, transitioning from burial with varying provision of grave goods, to a standardised, simple burial, with no accompanying objects. This was a process that happened around the same time across many …
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PUBLIC AWARENESS OF AND ATTITUDES TOWARD GREEN BURIAL: AN EXPLORATION OF MESSAGING INTERVENTIONS TO INCREASE ACCEPTANCE OF NATURAL BURIAL PRACTICES
Green burial (or natural burial) is a method of caring for the dead that seeks to have a lower impact on the environment and human health than cremation or conventional burial, which involves an embalmed body in an ornate casket buried within an impermeable concrete or metal grave liner. The main …
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A Study in Scarlet: A Bioarchaeological Investigation of the Differential Use of Ochre in Burial Practices at Khok Phanom Di, Central Thailand
This research investigates whether ochre use in burial practices reflects group identity and group diversity. Cemeteries present a unified space for collective commemoration; however, the diversity of the individuals and practices within enable an understanding of social organisation, and the …
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Buried identities: An osteological and archaeological analysis of burial variation and identity in Anglo-Saxon Norfolk
The thesis explores burial practices across all three phases (early, middle and late) of the Anglo-Saxon period (c.450–1066 AD) in Norfolk and the relationship with the identity of the deceased. It is argued that despite the plethora of research that there are few studies that address all three …
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Unmasked equalities: An examination of mortuary practices and social complexity in the Levantine Natufian and Pre-pottery Neolithic
… presents the results of an analysis of mortuary practices as reflected in 637 burials from 19 Natufian and Pre-pottery Neolithic sites in the southern Levant. The analysis focuses on selected dependent variables such as primary or secondary state, position, orientation, location, skull presence …
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A comparative analysis of human skeletal remains from Parowan Fremont, Virgin Anasazi, and Kayenta Anasazi archaeological sites
… quantify differences in skeletal parameters and burial practices. Statistical comparisons show no significant differences in skeletal metric traits among the 125 individuals studied; While most individuals examined were healthy, the prevalence of periostitis, osteitis, and linear enamel …
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Identifying the dead : eighteenth century mortuary practices at Cobern Street, Cape Town
A unique opportunity to study historic burial practices in Cape Town arose in 1994 when construction activities at Cobern Street, Green Point revealed an eighteenth century burial ground. Subsequent salvage excavations unearthed approximately 65 burials and scattered skeletal material (both …
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The Necrogeography of Melungeon Cemeteries in Central Appalachia
… study focuses on the necrogeography (regional burial practices) of the Melungeons, an understudied and underrepresented minority group. Their diverse ancestry purportedly includes a mixture of European, Native American, and African heritage. They have settled primarily in the Central …
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Colonialism, Continuity and Change: A Multidisciplinary Study of the Relationship between Colonialism and Iron Age and Medieval Settlement in the North Channel
… It was further augmented by employing burial and toponymic evidence as proxies for settlement. Combined with the textual narrative, the archaeological syntheses enabled an examination of, firstly, whether colonial activity actually occurred, and, secondly, the form of colonialism that …
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Death, society and social change: the Iron Age of southern Jutland 200 B.C. - 600 A.D.
… material available for the period, from burials, votive hoards and settlements, to reconstruct the long-term social development of that area. The first section deals with the representativity of the material from the three contexts to establish the biases in retrieval of information from …
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Exploring a Biocultural Model of Resiliency in the lower Illinois River Valley from Middle to Late Woodland Periods
… adult and non-adult Middle and Late Woodland burial contexts from the Elizabeth site were also examined in terms of burial posture and grave good inclusion. Meaningful patterns were identified using basic quantitative and qualitative methods within and across temporal periods by both …
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Stable carbon isotopes and prehistoric diets in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
… A third, or subsidiary goal, was to test whether burial practices can be correlated with subsistence economies in this situation - that is, whether ritual and dietary behaviour formed part of some larger cultural whole such as "pastoralists" - in order to be able to assign individuals to …
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Funerary Practice and Community Identities in the Bacong Region of Negros Island, Central Philippines
Jar burials are among the most distinctive and widespread mortuary traditions in the archaeology of the Philippines and Island Southeast Asia. Often interpreted within Austronesian migration frameworks, these practices are commonly explained through large-scale processes of population movement and …
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The Neolithic Settlement of the Yorkshire Dales
… as a Neolithic ‘buffer zone’ for the earliest burial monument building styles, with architectural influences from both the megalithic and earthen barrow building traditions apparent. The accepted chronologies of several of the larger burial cairns are challenged, burial practices are reviewed, …
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Mysteries of the Dead: A Taphonomic Analysis of the Skeletal Remains from the Peruvian Highland Sites of Marcahuamachuco and Cerro Amaru
… The remains were recovered from three different burial contexts: (1) Wall niches; (2) Underneath the Castillo; and (3) Inside a Mausoleum. The human skeletal samples recovered from inside the walls of niched halls at Marcahuamachuco are from males and females of average height, ranging in age …
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City of Kennesaw Cemetery: Preserving History
… of the underground imaging was to clarify where burials were made and in what section. Many of the burials in the cemetery were during the Civil War area when casual burial practices were employed. Since then, many of the cemetery lots have been sold to families to inter their deceased. To …
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AN OSTEOBIOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF THE FOSCUE PLANTATION BURIAL VAULT, POLLOCKSVILLE, JONES COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
… documents, including health, diet, disease, and burial practices. Excavation of the vault in fact revealed nine individuals: 1 adult male and 4 adult females, a 3 year (± 12 months) old child, and three preterm fetuses, two of which likely were twins. The estimated age of the fetuses suggests …
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The Southwest: A Study of Regional Identity in Material Culture and Textual Sources during the Eastern Han Dynasty (25 - 220 C.E.)
… region’s social make-up, economic activities, burial practices, education and governance, all of which contributed to the formation of a distinct regional identity. The southwest’s geographical isolation and its great distance from the Central Plains; the difficulties and dangers of road and …
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