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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"burial customs"”.
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The Early Bronze Age Burial Customs of Karataş-Semayük
… and amplified knowledge of third millennium burial customs in western Anatolia." Dissertation adviser: Machteld J. Mellink</p>
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Perpetual Care
… Despite death’s omnipresence, American burial customs are rooted in outdated traditions that push burial spaces to the outskirts of our cities and the grievers into spaces of isolation. Attitudes toward death have changed radically, and we need more democratic practices and new spaces …
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A Preliminary Analysis of Saw Mark Degeneration in Bone Due to the Application of Hydrated Calcium Oxide
… of calcium oxide (lime) in both agricultural and burial customs has been seen since the Iron Age. Due to this usage, the myth stating that the application of this chemical will expedite the complete destruction of human remains developed. This myth, in conjunction to historical and contemporary …
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A Preliminary Analysis of Saw Mark Degeneration in Bone Due to the Application of Hydrated Calcium Oxide
… of calcium oxide (lime) in both agricultural and burial customs has been seen since the Iron Age. Due to this usage, the myth stating that the application of this chemical will expedite the complete destruction of human remains developed. This myth, in conjunction to historical and contemporary …
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A Righteousness Housed in the Body: The Conception and Division of Kings' Bodies in Early Medieval Northwestern Literature
… with the work of Andrew Reynolds on deviant burial customs in Anglo-Saxon England. In Irish literature, there are a number of examples of kings and heroes using prostheses, both mechanical and magical, to circumvent the physical standards required of Irish kings. Irish kingship understood …
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More than bones. An investigation of life, death and diet in later prehistoric Slovenia and Croatia
… ‘elites’. This has been evidenced in a shift in burial customs, from Urnfield-type cremation burial to the construction 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, …
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Finding balance in unequal relations: the burial of humans and animals in the Viking Age world
… animal species. This is also true for Viking Age burial customs, where different types of animals were commonly killed to be placed in human graves. Acknowledging this asymmetry, however, does not imply that animals were - and should be considered - passive and inanimate props unilaterally used by …
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Eating identity: food, gender, and social organization in late Neolithic northern China
… is well known for its extremely elaborate burials indicating incipient social stratification. The initial spread of rice from southern China to the millet agriculture-based societies of the Yellow River Valley, including Dawenkou region, also occurred during this period. Dawenkou is also …
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ΠΡΟΙΣΤΟΡΙΚΗ ΘΑΣΟΣ Ι: ΤΑ ΝΕΚΡΟΤΑΦΕΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΟΙΚΙΣΜΟΥ "ΚΑΣΤΡΙ"
IN THIS THESIS ARCHAEOLOGICAL MATERIAL FOUND AT THE ISLAND OF THASOS AND DATEDTO THE END OF THE LATE BRONZE AGE AND TO THE EARLY IRON AGE PERIOD HAS BEEN STUDIED. THE MAIN EVIDENCE, ON WHICH THE RESEARCH HAS BEEN BASED, COMES FROM RECENT SURFACE EXPLORATIONS (SURVEY) AND FROM ARCHAEOLOGICAL …