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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Funerary archaeology"”.
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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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Peopling Portland’s Past: A paleodemographic, osteological and funerary investigation of the burial population excavated from the site of St. Andrew’s Church, Portland, UK.
The current project investigated the osteology, funerary archaeology and demography of the multi period site of Portland St. Andrew’s Church, Dorset, UK. The osteology and archaeology of the site were united through a comprehensive analysis of human skeletal remains and the creation of a complete …
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Morienti cuncta supersunt. Archeologia funeraria e modelli di interazione culturale nella Sardegna meridionale tra età punica ed età romana: il caso della necropoli di Mitza de Siddi di Ortacesus (SU)
… project aims to highlight some key aspects of funerary archaeology during the transitional phase from the Punic to the Roman period in southern Sardinia. Specifically, since this topic has been largely neglected in previous scholarship and lacks a standardized framework that would allow for …
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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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Death, disability, and diversity: An investigation of physical impairment and differential mortuary treatment in Anglo-Saxon England
… have been overlooked within the field of archaeology due to the controversy surrounding the topics of disability and care in the past. The current research adds to the growing body of archaeological disability studies with an exploration of physical impairment and the possibility of …
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Objects for the Dead, Practices of the Living: Chamber tombs, burial assemblages, and social dynamics at Ialysos on Rhodes and in the islands of the south-east Aegean
… Greek mainland. Because of this cultural label, funerary behaviour attested in the Dodecanese has been viewed almost exclusively through reference to contemporary chamber tomb cemeteries of mainland Greece. As a result, idiosyncrasies and variability in mortuary practices within and between …
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Finding balance in unequal relations: the burial of humans and animals in the Viking Age world
… members within them - could be involved in funerary practices. Some people, on the other hand, were not buried with animals at all. Humans, as well, were not simply ‘humans’. Moving away from traditional approaches seeing animals as either food or symbols, the main aim of this work is to …
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Buried identities: An osteological and archaeological analysis of burial variation and identity in Anglo-Saxon Norfolk
… and in comparing biological identity with the funerary evidence. Burial practices were related to the biological identity of the deceased across the three periods and within the different site types, but the less common burial practices had the greatest associations with the biological identity …