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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Interment"”.
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Multiple interment loculi tombs at Tell Dothan -- burial behaviour as cultural process in the Late Bronze/Early Iron I Levant
… 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 the dead to an examination of the ways in which …
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Role played by insects in the destruction of the dead body : and its medico-legal application
… enables us to determine the season at which interment took place
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An Archaeological Examination of a Family Cemetery in the South Carolina Low Country
… of the use of the area as that of a place of interment.
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Interpreting conflict mortuary behaviour: applying non-linear and traditional quantitative methods to conflict burials
… conflict situations. Its core is a conflict interment model that I developed to facilitate the identification of material differences in burials that will help in understanding burial circumstances (e.g., whether a death occurred in direct conflict on the battlefield, as a direct consequence …
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Public cemeteries and the production of urban space in colonial Seoul, 1910-1945
… burial rule was the prohibition of long-standing interment customs – such as feng-shui-based private gravesites – and the installation of public cemeteries as the only place for interment. The rule also introduced cremation into Korean society, a practice that had long been taboo. The gravesite …
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A paleopathological and mortuary analysis of three Precontact burials from southern Saskatchewan
There is relatively little interment information available for the Middle and Late Middle Precontact Periods and even less for the Early Precontact and Early Middle Precontact Periods in Southern Saskatchewan. The Stoney Beach, Fox Valley and Adamiak sites provide some data on paleopathology and …
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Places: a columbarium and chapel in Lynchburg's Old City Cemetery
… in the cemetery was overturned allowing for the interment or dispersal of ashes on the cemetery's grounds. Despite it's rediscovery, the Old City Cemetery remains a tranquil place. Today, visitors come for various reasons. For many, the cemetery's Confederate section, surrounded by 10 foot …
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Stability of heroin metabolites and oxycodone in rat hair and liver during decomposition
… in both hair and liver decreased as the interment period and decomposition of the carcasses progressed. 6-Monoacetylmorphine was not detected in any hair samples collected from the exhumed carcasses.
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An Evaluation of Geophysical Methods in the Detection of Toddler-Sized Burials During the First Six Months of Burials
… data were collected over the first six months of interment at approximately 30-day intervals for two research plots: an open grassy area and a wooded area. Each area contained five pig burials representing toddler-size (less than 50 pounds) remains and two areas of disturbance or false burials to …
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The Analysis Of Preserved And Degraded Human Skeletal Material: Understanding Relationships Between Bone And The Soil Environment
… to have fully dissolved within 20-30 years post interment, found that the mobility of ions including: Ca, Fe, Mg, K, and P, out of the bone into the soil, does not happen at a constant or predictable rate, but is linked to the environmental soil conditions and burial dynamics. These include: …
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An osteological and historical examination of the Presbyterian Forest Centre Cemetery, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan
… stains suggesting the presence of additional interments within the construction site. The remains of two individuals were recovered during this original construction exposure. The following spring, Western Heritage Services, Inc., in coordination with the Department of Archaeology, University …
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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
… between the use of these exotic exudates and interment in substantial, often multiple, containers with high-quality textiles and grave goods was observed. Theoretical consideration of this imported rite illuminates the multiplicity of roles played by resins/gum-resins in the mortuary sphere. …
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To continue (approaching the Woodland Cemetery)
… parts. The first examines the significance of interment, of the return of the body to the realm of nature upon death. The second speculates upon the operation of time in relation to the idea of memory, focussing on the necessity of forgetting in the process of mourning, and in the process of …
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To Do as Said and Written: Excavated Manuals and the Performance of Medicine and Spirit Power in Early China
… language; a cross-cultural survey of manuscript interment in ancient China, Egypt, Greece, and Rome is also included so as to trace the cultural and religious factors behind this funerary practice. Chapter 2, centering on the recently published, 2nd-century-BCE Tianhui medical manuscripts 天回醫簡, …
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Peripheral memory : New York's forgotten landscape
… history of the city through the lens of the interment of the abject. Historically, the state has provided for remains not otherwise cared for through what are commonly referred to as "potter's fields" - municipally owned burial grounds for the poor, the friendless, the alien, and the unknown. …
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Heads, shoulders, knees and toes: Exploring bodies, body parts and personhood in late Neolithic Malta through funerary taphonomy
… research finds a predominant practice of primary interment and subsequent disarticulation in most burial spaces. Disarticulation typically focussed on the selective removal of crania and long bones, and long bones are demonstrated to have been removed from the Xemxija Tombs. Careful analysis shows …
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The Space Between Life and Death
The purpose of this thesis is to fracture the crystalized memory of cemeteries to promote a healthy relationship with the presence of passing. Understanding and reintegrating cemeteries within today's urban contextualization. Bridging the taboo nature of cemeteries through its revitalization of …
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War Trophies and Ancestor Veneration, A Bioarchaeological Analysis of Maya Secondary Interments at Formative Cuello and K'axob in Northern Belize
Secondary interments, common among Maya burials, are typically identified by disarticulated or unnatural positioning of the skeleton within the grave. Various beliefs and procedures are responsible for these atypical burials, including partibility, the taking of human trophies, and ancestor …
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Resource Allocation on Networks: Nested Event Tree Optimization, Network Interdiction, and Game Theoretic Methods
… coalition forces transporting detainees between interment facilities. For this application, we examine the network interdiction problem of minimizing the maximum probability of evasion by an entity traversing a network from a given source to a designated terminus, while incorporating novel forms …