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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Grave Goods"”.
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Intersectional social identity in Early Iron Age Dolenjska : a statistical analysis of grave goods from Kapiteljska njiva in Novo Mesto, Slovenia
… can be accomplished through the examination of grave goods, which provide a unique window into the individuals' identities. The present study explores the intersectional nature of social identity in the Dolenjska Hallstatt culture of Early Iron Age Slovenia (800 - 300 BCE) using grave goods from …
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Burial Practices in Transition: A study of the cultural and religious cohesion of Early Medieval Europe
… 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 areas of Europe, but previous studies into the transition have been constrained by modern national …
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A recent application of the Saxe-Binford hypothesis in establishing social persona
… type, urn), headstone type, and associated grave goods. The boundaries of the cemetery sections, burial locations, depths of the deceased were unknown. Thus, archaeological as well as physical anthropological methods were used. These methods included: (1) archival research to acquire all …
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Childhood Growth In An Oneota Community: Examining Long Bone Growth Differences In The The Juveniles At Norris Farms 36
… interred with Oneonta and Mississippian grave goods in the Norris farms 36 cemetery. Correlation, linear regression analysis, and a statistical t-test of measurements from the left femora and humeri of 135 of the 137 juveniles were compared to age estimates based on dental development and …
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A Mortuary Analysis of the Structure 7 Cemetery at Town Creek, a Mississippian Site in the Piedmont of North Carolina
… attributes that include burial depth, age, sex, grave goods, body positioning and body orientation, I identify five spatially discrete groups within the Structure 7 cemetery. I argue that these five groups represent smaller social groups within the clan. The first group is a Central Square …
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The Archaeology of Mortuary Ritual as Rite of Passage in Prehistoric Europe
… practice, including the presence and types of grave goods, the structure of the grave, and the treatment of the corpse, as a priority. By examining the ways in which cemeteries functioned as spaces of personal and group separation and transformation, I seek to clarify the role that death played …
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Identifying the dead : eighteenth century mortuary practices at Cobern Street, Cape Town
… detailed description of the burial patterns and grave goods unearthed at the site. An attempt is made to construct a cultural identity for the Cobern Street burials, and to determine what, if anything, burial practices have to contribute to our understanding of eighteenth century colonial …
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Whodunnit? Grave-robbery in early medieval northern and western Europe
… all that is currently known of early medieval grave reopening in northern and western Europe. It investigates in detail an intensive outbreak of grave-robbery in 6th-7th century Kent. This is closely related to the same phenomenon in Merovingia: an example of the import of not only material …
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Funerary Practice and Community Identities in the Bacong Region of Negros Island, Central Philippines
… through high-visibility attributes, including grave arrangements, burial vessels, grave goods, and ritual activities, and low-visibility attributes, defined as unintentional yet affiliative technological traits in ceramic production. The analysis identifies patterns in mortuary practices and …
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Matmar: revisiting burial practice of the non-elite during the Third Intermediate Period
… Egypt. The chosen trial dataset is the TIP grave corpus from Matmar in Middle Egypt, originally excavated by Guy Brunton between 1928-31. After evaluating the original excavation report and updating Brunton’s results in line with current understanding, SPSS chi-squared and cross-tabs …
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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
… taphonomy, context, and association with rich grave offerings, the burial appears to be a sacrificial offering. The skeletal material from inside the Mausoleum at Cerro Amaru was the most fragmentary and affected by non-cultural taphonomic processes. The remains are from males and females …
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Shady Grove Site (22QU525) Quitman County, Mississippi: Analysis of Demographics and Mortuary Practices
… ranked populations, and production of prestige goods. Sociopolitical structure was based on kinship, wealth, and power, and can be revealed through the local mortuary programs. This thesis explores the mortuary practices observed at an ossuary at Shady Grove (22QU525), a small mounded center in …
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A Paleopathological Analysis of the Moran French Colonial Cemetery
… from this period based on collagen dating and grave goods, have been recovered at the Moran site (22HR511). DNA analysis (n = 8) suggests all are European. Most are males, and only one lived past age 40. Estimated mean height is 165.1cm for males (n = 15) and 155.49cm for females (n = 3), which …
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The final masquerade: a molecular-based approach to the identification of resinous plant exudates in Roman mortuary contexts in Britain and evaluation of their significance
… of amorphous masses, adhering residues and grave deposits using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry has revealed terpenoid biomarkers in sixteen inhumation and two cremation burials. The natural products characterized include European Pinaceae (conifer) resins, Pistacia spp. …
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Buried identities: An osteological and archaeological analysis of burial variation and identity in Anglo-Saxon Norfolk
… social role or status. Whilst the inclusion of grave-goods created the early Anglo-Saxon burial tableau, a later burial tableau was created using the grave and / or the position of the body and an increasing connection between the biological and the social identity of the deceased, noted …
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Non-elite mortuary variability in the Early Dynastic Memphis region
… statistical analyses of cemetery data comparing grave parameters such as volume, quantity of grave goods, their materials and pottery vessel types, but also architecture, body protection, skeletal sex and the age of the deceased across sites. The application of statistical hypothesis testing …
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Interpreting conflict mortuary behaviour: applying non-linear and traditional quantitative methods to conflict burials
… centuries, types of conflict, culture, and grave type (or level of a particular type of grave) is to test the applicability of the model to: a) known grave types, in order to discern any common elements to be found in friendly, neutral, or hostile interments; and b) unknown grave types, in …
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Identity as process: an archaeological and osteological study of Early Bronze Age burials in northern England.
… Male and female differences in burials and grave-goods may indicate the local ties of men and more fluid object-related identities among women.
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Unmasked equalities: An examination of mortuary practices and social complexity in the Levantine Natufian and Pre-pottery Neolithic
… location, skull presence or absence, and grave goods presence or absence. It analyzes their frequency against such independent variables as age and sex of the deceased, period, and site. The analysis reveals that Natufian burial practices differed fundamentally from Prepottery Neolithic …
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‘Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are’: A Multi-Tissue and Multi-Scalar Isotopic Study of Diet and Mobility in Early Medieval England and its European Neighbours
… link between isotopic patterns, genetics and grave goods usually seen as “ethnic” signifiers. I show that these were multi-origin communities in continual contact through long-distance networks which influenced the changes we see throughout the first millennium AD.
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