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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Ossuary"”.
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Demographic Investigation of a Piscataway Creek Ossuary
Skeletal material from an ossuary on Piscataway Creek was analyzed to determine the minimum number of individuals present, and their sex, stature, developmental life stage and age at death. Cultural debris indicated a date of about 1400-1500 A.D. for the burial. At least 281 individuals were …
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Adult Health in a North Carolina Algonkian Population: The Piggot Ossuary (31CR14).
North Carolina State University Theses Sociology.
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One Big Puzzle, Two Thousand Tiny Pieces: An Analysis of the Juvenile Remains from the Shady Grove Ossuary
… excavated in 2010 from a Middle Mississippian ossuary at the Shady Grove site (22QU525), located in the Mississippi Delta. This project presents a clear challenge given the commingled and incomplete nature of the sample, as well as the preservation biases associated with subadult material, but …
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Shady Grove Site (22QU525) Quitman County, Mississippi: Analysis of Demographics and Mortuary Practices
… 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, and associated grave goods.</p> <p>The Burial 43 ossuary, excavated in 2010 …
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Paleopathology at the Shady Grove Site (22QU525): A Study of Health in the Upper Yazoo Basin During the Middle Mississippian Period
… Mississippian medium sized mound center where an ossuary containing up to 100 individuals was excavated in 2010. Focusing only on the adult portion of the ossuary population, health of the population was assessed using multiple childhood and nonspecific indicators of stress including stature, …
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Unearthing presence in the artefacts of slavery at the Cape: the production of archaeological narratives in post-apartheid South Africa
… include the Iziko Slave Lodge, Prestwich Place Ossuary, the South African Sendinggestig Museum/Slave Church Museum and Leeuwenhof Slave Quarters, as well as wine estates such as Vergelegen and Solms Delta. It also draws on two key maritime archaeological projects namely the Meermin and São Josè …