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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Mortuary practices"”.
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A Spatial Analysis of Chachapoya Mortuary Practices at La Petaca, Chachapoyas, Peru
Diversity of Chachapoya mortuary practices is not well understood archaeologically, even though the region has received some attention for the monumental constructions and visually striking mortuary complexes located high on open cliff faces. This may be due to the difficult accessibility and often …
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Identifying the dead : eighteenth century mortuary practices at Cobern Street, Cape Town
A unique opportunity to study historic burial practices in Cape Town arose in 1994 when construction activities at Cobern Street, Green Point revealed an eighteenth century burial ground. Subsequent salvage excavations unearthed approximately 65 burials and scattered skeletal material (both …
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Shady Grove Site (22QU525) Quitman County, Mississippi: Analysis of Demographics and Mortuary Practices
… 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 Quitman County dating to the Early Mississippian Period, based on demographics, burial mode, cemetery location, …
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Radiometric evaluation of the prehistoric mortuary practices of the Chinchorro culture in northern Chile
… that did not recognize individual social rank in mortuary practices. To test these hypotheses 16 samples from 15 Chinchorro mummies of the Arica, Chile area were 14C dated. These figures were then compared to 23 previously published dates. Results demonstrated that the classification scheme …
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The Social Life of Death: Mortuary Practices in the North-Central Andes, 11th-18th centuries
… reflects the world of the living. Studies of mortuary practices are a fundamental way for scholars to research ancient societies, rituals and belief systems. This thesis examines the transformations in funerary practices in the North-Central Andes from AD 1000 to 1799, a period covering both …
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Constructing community and cosmos : a bioarchaeological analysis of Wisconsin Effigy Mound mortuary practices and mound construction
… ANALYSIS OF WISCONSIN EFFIGY MOUND MORTUARY PRACTICES AND MOUND CONSTRUCTIONByWendy Lee Lackey-CornelisonThis dissertation presents an analysis of the mounds, human skeletal remains, grave goods, and ritual paraphernalia interred within mounds traditionally categorized as belonging …
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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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Late prehistoric mortuary practices : an analysis of the Bethune, Sisterbutte, Glen Ewen and Moose Bay burials in Saskatchewan
… demonstrate at least two distinct patterns of mortuary behavior prevalent on the Northern Plains. The Bethune burial located near Bethune, Saskatchewan, is an Avonlea burial dating 1389 +/- 40 years BP. This site is the only Avonlea burial known to date in Canada, and only one of three burials …
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Unmasked equalities: An examination of mortuary practices and social complexity in the Levantine Natufian and Pre-pottery Neolithic
This study presents the results of an analysis of mortuary practices as reflected in 637 burials from 19 Natufian and Pre-pottery Neolithic sites in the southern Levant. The analysis focuses on selected dependent variables such as primary or secondary state, position, orientation, location, skull …
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A paleopathological and mortuary analysis of three Precontact burials from southern Saskatchewan
… sites provide some data on paleopathology and mortuary practices and contribute to this data set in order to try to create a more complete picture of health and mortuary practices during Precontact times in southern Saskatchewan. The Stoney Beach site appears to be the oldest interment found in …
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Religion and Burial Roman Domination, Celtic Acceptance, or Mutual Understanding
… of two of those values, religious and mortuary practices, can help reveal the extent of Romanization in Britain and finally confirm Collingwood’s theory of Romanization.</p>
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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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Contextualising deviancy: a regional approach to decapitated inhumation in late Roman Britain
… The lack of contextualisation within the mortuary structures of late Roman Britain has entrenched the view that decapitated burial stood in contrast to 'normal', 'acceptable' funerary behaviour. By using quantitative and qualitative analysis of funerary behaviour within three regional case …
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A comparative analysis of human skeletal remains from Parowan Fremont, Virgin Anasazi, and Kayenta Anasazi archaeological sites
… differences in skeletal parameters and burial practices. Statistical comparisons show no significant differences in skeletal metric traits among the 125 individuals studied; While most individuals examined were healthy, the prevalence of periostitis, osteitis, and linear enamel hypoplasia was …
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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
… As a result, idiosyncrasies and variability in mortuary practices within and between island communities have not received sufficient attention beyond the ‘Mycenaeanisation’ debate – beyond questions about migrations, acculturation, politics and ethnicity, which have defined studies of the …
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Crossroads of Conversion: Intersections of Bodies, Materials, and Histories in Early Medieval Bohemia
… dissertation examines the skeletal remains and mortuary practices from two cemeteries at the early medieval site of Libice nad Cidlinou in the Czech Republic. The 9th and 10th centuries in Central Europe have been characterized by political consolidation and the rise of Christian institutions. …
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Funerary Practice and Community Identities in the Bacong Region of Negros Island, Central Philippines
… are among the most distinctive and widespread mortuary traditions in the archaeology of the Philippines and Island Southeast Asia. Often interpreted within Austronesian migration frameworks, these practices are commonly explained through large-scale processes of population movement and cultural …
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