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The Bronze Age Funerary Cups of Northern England
… found to be associated with Early Bronze Age funerary practices. Known by the name of incense cups, accessory vessels or miniature cups, their true purpose has been elusive. This study comprises an investigation of cups from Northern England and finds the tradition to be heavily influenced by …
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The Bronze Age funerary cups of southern England
’Pygmy’, ‘incense’, ‘accessory’ or ‘funerary’ cups are small Early Bronze Age vessels, almost all from mortuary contexts, united by their diminutive size. Although several small-scale and regional studies have previously been undertaken, until recently there has been little attempt to consider such …
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Lion-hearted Zezva: musical memorial at a funerary horse race
This thesis is focused on the memorial practices of the Tushetian community of northeastern Georgia, in particular their annual, commemorative festival known as Zezvaoba. Through an analysis of Zezvaoba’s structure, rites, and sounds; an explanation of local histories and beliefs; and personal …
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The mosaics of Monreale: A study of their monastic and funerary context
The cathedral of Monreale in Sicily is one of the great monuments of the Middle Ages. Its upper walls and vaults are covered with an extensive and well-preserved program of mosaics, executed by Greek craftsmen in the late twelfth-century Byzantine style. King William II and his mother, Margaret of …
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‘Beyond the Binary’: Funerary Archaeology, Gendered Identity, and its Impact on Contemporary Society
… are considered fundamental aspects of identity. Funerary archaeology is used as the access point to identity in the past, with these materials providing the basis for conclusions. Within interpretations, the sex and gender binaries are often relied upon, causing issues with reliability and …
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‘See and Understand’: Funerary Monuments, Vision, and Memory in Italy, ca.1300-1530
… contradictory nature of theory and practice for funerary monuments in Italy between ca. 1300 and 1530. The principal focus will be on the juxtaposition of written thought on the agency of tombs with the in-depth analysis of archive-based case studies. As such, this dissertation aims to highlight …
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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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Waking the dead: funerary performance, classical appropriation, and gendered embodiment on the early Abbey stage
"Funerary performances loom large in the earliest accounts of Ireland and Irishness that come down to us. In colonial Ireland, unregulated wakes and funerary traditions endured in spite of legal and ecclesiastical attempts to police death’s meaning according to the interests of the dominant power …
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Marriage or a Multiplicity of Meanings? The Dextrarum Iunctio on Roman and Early Christian Funerary Monuments
… motif that served a pragmatic function on Roman funerary reliefs, providing a means to depict relationships and integration into identity groups, to an allegorical motif that is combined with other ornamentation and complementary images on funerary altars and sarcophagi.
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Local identities in a common language: the iconography of Hellenistic funerary stelai from eastern Greek poleis
… Grabreliefs, a corpus covering the funerary monuments of Greek islands and large parts of modern Anatolia, was published by E. Pfuhl and H. Möbius during the 1970s and provides the most comprehensive collection of grave stelai from the eastern Greek cities during the Hellenistic …
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Minoan Funerary Practices During the Bronze Age: With a Study on the Introduction of Cremation to Crete
The funerary practices on Crete during the Bronze Age are very diverse in nature. Tomb architecture in the Early Minoan period is characterized by regional variations. In the Middle Minoan and Late Minoan periods the regional variations, present in the Early Minoan period, are not as palpable due …
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The Art of Burial in the Medieval Nile Valley: Christian and Islamic Interchange in Religious Funerary Contexts
… circumstances of the dead shaped the meanings of funerary objects in significant ways. Christians adapted visual and material features of funerary objects that originally served Islamic doctrine in order to accommodate Christian beliefs. At the same time, burial objects held meanings that were …
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Ritual and Funerary Rites in Later Prehistoric Scotland: An Analysis of Faunal Assemblages from the Covesea Caves
… in order to provide a proxy for the complex funerary treatments to which the human remains were subject. Analysis of Covesea Cave 2 revealed a narrative of ritual and funerary activities, from the Neolithic to the Post-Medieval Period. Zooarchaeological analysis has illustrated how certain …
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Heads, shoulders, knees and toes: Exploring bodies, body parts and personhood in late Neolithic Malta through funerary taphonomy
… Malta (c. 3600–2300 cal BC) by reconstructing funerary practices at two collective burial sites: the Xemxija Tombs (Malta) and Xagħra Circle (Gozo). The range and sequence of funerary practices are identified through implementing taphonomic analysis to classify the condition and modification of …
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Identity and Social Change in North-Western Europe (BCE 250/100 - 200 CE): new narratives through funerary evidence
… and regional attempts at organising coherent funerary traditions in the areas of south-eastern England and the southern Netherlands. Four chapters focus on the Pre-Roman Iron Age (PRIA) burial record, body articulation in the PRIA, group identities in the immediate post-conquest period, and …
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The analysis of funerary and ritual practices in Wales between 3600-1200 BC based on osteological and contextual data
… Neolithic to Middle Bronze Age (3600-1200 BC) funerary and ritual practices in Wales. This was based on the analysis of chronological (radiocarbon determinations and artefactual evidence), contextual (monument types, burial types, deposit types) and osteological (demographic and pyre …
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Landmarks of the Persian Renaissance : monumental funerary architecture in Iran and Central Asia in the tenth and eleventh centuries
This dissertation investigates the sudden proliferation of mausolea in Iran and Central Asia in the tenth and eleventh centuries and how their patrons, who were secular rulers of Iranian descent, drew on the pre-Islamic past in new ways specific to each region. Mausolea constructed in the tenth and …
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