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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Death and burial"”.
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Interpreting conflict mortuary behaviour: applying non-linear and traditional quantitative methods to conflict burials
… research in this dissertation concerns methods and theories involved in the analysis and interpretation of burials related to wars and other conflict situations. Its core is a conflict interment model that I developed to facilitate the identification of material differences in burials that will …
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Siting the industrial cemetery : new burial grounds and crematory for Braintree, MA
… cemeteries, once sited at the edge of cities and towns, are now surrounded by urban sprawl and development of surrounding land. Boundaries become blurred and undefined, and incompatible programs are placed at the edges of the cemetery. Development and exploitation of land has resulted in the …
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Arkadia in transition: exploring late Bronze Age and early Iron Age human landscape
… the region of Arkadia in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age using an interpretative and phenomenologically inspired approach. It is region associated with many myths pointing to a continuing population throughout the period, yet beset with a problematic archaeological record. This has been …
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The Persistence of Place in Appalachia: The Phenomena of Post-Death Migration, 1930-1970
… the obituaries of deceased Kentuckians in state and local newspapers beginning in 1972. A pattern became clear that Kentuckians who had left their mountains and moved to northern industrial cities in order to find work as the coal fields played out and after the Great Depression often returned, …
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A Poetic Response to Cancer: Scars, Mortality, and the Doctor-Patient Relationship
… specifically focusing on scars, mortality and the doctor-patient relationship. I argue that the body standards society sets for women complicate how women wear scars; people read scars as imperfections on the female form. Because scars are visible markers on the body, they speak for …
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Multiple interment loculi tombs at Tell Dothan -- burial behaviour as cultural process in the Late Bronze/Early Iron I Levant
… I Age Canaanite tomb plans rests on the understanding of the ‘foreign’ and the ‘local’ elements of interments of that period. When Diane Bolger, in her discussion of ancient Cypriot mortuary practices, noted the shift in the scholarly literature from the emphasis on the identity and status of …
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Arquitectura del paisaje. Intervención en el Cementerio El Ángel y Museo Cementerio Presbítero Maestro
… interact with the past. The memory, the senses and the emotions that are manifested within these environments have made the link with the cemeteries special and different from other buildings. Since its inception, cemeteries have been moved out of cities for health reasons. However, the lack of …
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Identity as process: an archaeological and osteological study of Early Bronze Age burials in northern England.
Osteological and archaeological approaches are brought together to investigate questions on the mortuary practices, health, demography, identities, and chronology of Early Bronze Age burials in northern England. Processes of life, death and burial are identified as a way of evaluating the …
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Children and child burial in medieval England
… an investigation into children in medieval England through burial, the most archaeologically-visible evidence for the treatment and conceptualisation of children in life. It examines whether children were distinguished in burial from adults in parish cemeteries of the 10th-16th centuries. …
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The Catafalque of Paul V: Architecture, Sculpture and Iconography
… examines the catafalque erected for the reburial of Pope Paul V in S. Maria Maggiore on January 30, 1622. The catafalque, commissioned by the pope's nephew Scipione Borghese, was only the second catafalque ever built for a pope. It was a large tempietto type structure, fashioned of wood and …
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Skeletal evidence of the social persona. Life, death and society in early medieval Alamannic communities
… approach to the concepts of social organisation and social identities in Alamannic populations, this study examines and defines Alamannic identity and society by creating a dialogue between the disciplines of archaeology, biological anthropology and socio-cultural sciences. A bioarchaeology of …