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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Mortuary Practice"”.
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Animals, Identity and Cosmology: Mortuary Practice in Early Medieval Eastern England
… medieval society, and their contribution to mortuary practices is considered to be multifaceted, reflecting their multiple roles in everyday life. This project considers the roles of animals in mortuary practice between the 5th-7th centuries across five counties in eastern England – Norfolk, …
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Pottery Production, Mortuary Practice, and Social Complexity in the Majiayao Culture, NW China (ca. 5300-4000 BP)
… are supplemented with settlement pattern and mortuary analyses of thousands of published sites and burials. By synthesizing these data, this study illustrates a positive correlation between regional density of settlement distribution, intensification of pottery production, and degree of social …
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The Visible Dead: A New Approach to the Study of Late Iron Age Mortuary Practice in South-Eastern Britain
… aim of the thesis is to investigate the mortuary practices of the late Iron Age period in south-eastern Britain, focusing on identification of the wider sequence of activity. It is evident that the deposition of the calcined remains and associated objects are just one element in a more …
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The Archaeology of Mortuary Ritual as Rite of Passage in Prehistoric Europe
This thesis examines the ways in which mortuary ritual functioned as a rite of passage at three sites in prehistoric Europe: Wor Barrow on Cranborne Chase, Tumulus 17 in the Speckhau Mound Group at the Heuneburg, and the Hochdorf tomb in southwestern Germany. The sites were selected with diversity …
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Cahokia's origins: Religion, complexity and ridge-top mortuaries in the Mississippi River Valley
… of Cahokia through an exploration of ridge-top mortuary practices across the three precincts of Cahokia, East St. Louis and St. Louis ca. AD 1050-1200. Through the theoretical lens of relational ontology and ‘New Animism’ I investigate how Cahokia’s emergence was intrinsically tied to the …
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Investigating the Spatial and Statistical Dimensions of Mortuary Choice in the Historical-Period Old City Cemetery in Roslyn, Washington
… and exhibits considerable variation in mortuary expression. As such, the Old City Cemetery offers a unique opportunity to explore potential differences in social group mortuary practices spatially and statistically. Using burials in Roslyn’s Old City Cemetery, this project developed a …
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Social use and value of trade ceramics: an analysis of mortuary practices in Calatagan, southwest Luzon, the Philippines
… thus contributes to our understanding of the mortuary practice, as well as various social uses and values of trade ceramics in protohistoric lowland Philippine societies and of the changing nature of the interaction between local society and long distance maritime trade in Southeast Asia. At a …
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Narrativizing Difference in Earlier Bronze Age Society: a comparative analysis of age and gender ideologies in the burials of Ireland and Scotland
… – often subsumed into wider European models. Mortuary practice is used as a lens to identify communities’ age- and gender-related concerns at the graveside. The analysis tacks between scales – the local, the regional and the general. Beginning with a statistical overview of 555 burials …