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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"burial mounds"”.
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Hidden Monuments
Jeju Island’s burial culture is embedded in the island’s distinct landscape, where sandam burial mounds are not isolated monuments but quietly coexist with fields, ranches, and forests. These sites are living records of intangible heritage—ancestral beliefs, Beolcho rituals, and vernacular …
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Developing a methodology for archaeological prospection on alluvial floodplains with a case study involving the Winckley Lowes barrow sequence, Lancashire.
… case study due to the presence of three putative burial mounds and one confirmed mound of anthromorphic origin. The results of this investigation provide evidence of the development of river terracing, human occupation from the Mesolithic period onwards and offers interpretation of how the …
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Pictish Mounds and Norse Assembly Sites: Norse Settlement and Landscapes in the Orkney Islands from the 9th to 11th century
… archaeology, it examines how earlier sites—like burial mounds, Iron Age structures, and assembly places—were reused and reinterpreted to reflect Norse ideas of authority, memory, and belonging. With focuses on early contact and interaction between the Norse and the Pictish population of Orkney. …
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The analysis of funerary and ritual practices in Wales between 3600-1200 BC based on osteological and contextual data
… evidence), contextual (monument types, burial types, deposit types) and osteological (demographic and pyre technology) data from a comprehensive dataset of excavated human bone deposits from funerary and ritual monuments. Funerary rites in the Middle Neolithic (c. 3600-2900 BC) sometimes …
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Are linear arrangements of Early Bronze Age round barrows oriented towards predictable extreme solar events on the horizon?
… the orientations of lines of Bronze Age burial mounds (‘round barrows’) in Dorset and the New Forest. Doing this required identifying as many as possible lines of round barrows in the study area, which contained 3,587 sites of individual barrows. A set of criteria to define lines of …
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Late prehistoric mortuary practices : an analysis of the Bethune, Sisterbutte, Glen Ewen and Moose Bay burials in Saskatchewan
There are four known Late Prehistoric burials in Saskatchewan which 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 …
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Changing Landscapes and Persistent Places : An Exploration of the Bjäre Peninsula
Changing Landscapes and Persistent Places is a study of the cultural landscape on the Bjäre peninsula in northwest Skåne. The many Bronze Age remains that give the landscape its distinctive character are the starting point for an attempt to increase our understanding of the historical depth of …