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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Inhumation"”.
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Contextualising deviancy: a regional approach to decapitated inhumation in late Roman Britain
… is the poorly-understood rite of decapitated inhumation which was practiced predominantly in the 3rd and 4th centuries AD in Britain. Previous studies have often involved the accumulation of data on decapitated inhumations themselves and cross analysis of examples. Conclusions drawn on the …
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Animals, Identity and Cosmology: Mortuary Practice in Early Medieval Eastern England
… cremation ritual, and less frequently of inhumations, until the introduction of Christianity during the 7th century. Most interpretation has focused either on the animal as symbolic of identity or as an indication of pagan belief, with little consideration given to the interaction between …
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Detecting graves in GPR data: assessing the viability of machine learning for the interpretation of graves in B-scan data using medieval Irish case studies.
… to improve the speed and confidence of detecting inhumation graves. The survey parameters research combined established survey guidelines for the UK, Ireland, and Europe to account for local geology, soils and land cover to provide survey guidance for individual sites via a decision-based …
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The Visible Dead: A New Approach to the Study of Late Iron Age Mortuary Practice in South-Eastern Britain
… pattern of behaviour. A number of contemporary inhumation burials and mortuary-related features drawn from an increasing number of sites illustrate the wider practices in operation.<br/><br/>The identification of pyre-related features and debris lies at the core of this study providing an …
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More than bones. An investigation of life, death and diet in later prehistoric Slovenia and Croatia
… of tumuli and the adoption of elaborate inhumation burial. This multidisciplinary, multi-scalar approach to the analysis of human remains aims to explore the evolving structure, homogeneity and heterogeneity of communities inhabiting central and eastern Slovenia, and north-eastern …
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Minoan Funerary Practices During the Bronze Age: With a Study on the Introduction of Cremation to Crete
… island where the main form of burial has been inhumation since the Early Minoan period. Cremation is first noted in areas that have strong trade connections. Cremation is commonly used in the Near East and I attempt to track its progression and appearance on Crete from the East. The Iliad is …
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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
… has revealed terpenoid biomarkers in sixteen inhumation and two cremation burials. The natural products characterized include European Pinaceae (conifer) resins, Pistacia spp. (mastic/terebinth) resins from the Mediterranean or the Levant and Boswellia spp. (frankincense) gum-resins from …
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The analysis of funerary and ritual practices in Wales between 3600-1200 BC based on osteological and contextual data
… BC) sometimes involved the deposition of single inhumation or cremation burials in inconspicuous pit graves. After a hiatus in the Late Neolithic (c. 2900-2400 BC), formal burials re-appeared in the Chalcolithic (c. 2500-2200 BC) with Beaker burials. However, formal burials remained relatively …
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Buried identities: An osteological and archaeological analysis of burial variation and identity in Anglo-Saxon Norfolk
… has tended to separate the cremation and inhumation rites. This research has shown that in Norfolk the use of the two rites may have been related and used to convey aspects of identity and / or social position, from a similar or opposing perspective, possibly relating to a pre-Christian …
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Wetwang Slack : an Iron Age cemetery on the Yorkshire Wolds.
… this site exceptional are the large number of inhumation burials involved (446), the unusually good stratigraphical evidence for the relative chronology of the cemetery, and the extensive remains of the contemporary settlement which the cemetery served. In an introduction British Iron Age …
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Palimpsests, Activities, and Archaeological Taxonomy: Implications from Late Plains Woodland Components (AD 500-1000) of the Hamon Site in Northeastern Kansas
… with evidence for a possible open fire kiln, and inhumation of the deceased. The analysis also reveals that a revision of archaeological taxonomy is needed for several designation units in the Late Plains Woodland Period (AD 500-1000). The formal traits of artifacts from the Hamon site, and other …
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A paleopathological and mortuary analysis of three Precontact burials from southern Saskatchewan
… classified as an Early Middle Precontact Period inhumation due to a radiocarbon date of 6050±40 B.P. and represents a primary burial orientated southeast-northwest with an adult female between the ages of thirty and thirty five found in a flexed position and an infant between 9.2 and 10.2 lunar …