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Burials
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An Evaluation of Geophysical Methods in the Detection of Toddler-Sized Burials During the First Six Months of Burials
… and a wooded area. Each area contained five pig burials representing toddler-size (less than 50 pounds) remains and two areas of disturbance or false burials to serve as control graves. The resultant imagery was evaluated in terms of relative utility in burial detection. In general, geophysical …
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Curating the Dead: Bodies and Matter in Early Mycenaean Burials
… between bodies and objects in early Mycenaean burials, between 1700 and 1400 BCE on mainland Greece. It adopts an artistic approach to these burials, which treats the burial context as an intentional representation, centred around the creative actions of selection and deposition. It combines …
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An Analysis of Wall Vault Burials From Cypress Grove Cemetery, New Orleans
<p>Cypress Grove Cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana was established in 1840 by the Firemen’s Charitable and Benevolent Association. The purpose of this thesis was to present osteobiographies from the remains and mortuary artifacts recovered from two late 19<sup>th</sup> century wall vault that were …
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A paleopathological and mortuary analysis of three Precontact burials from southern Saskatchewan
There is relatively little interment information available for the Middle and Late Middle Precontact Periods and even less for the Early Precontact and Early Middle Precontact Periods in Southern Saskatchewan. The Stoney Beach, Fox Valley and Adamiak sites provide some data on paleopathology and …
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Interpreting conflict mortuary behaviour: applying non-linear and traditional quantitative methods to conflict burials
… involved in the analysis and interpretation of burials related to wars and other conflict situations. Its core is a conflict interment model that I developed to facilitate the identification of material differences in burials that will help in understanding burial circumstances (e.g., whether a …
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The Usefulness of Ground Penetrating Radar in locating burials in Charity Hospital Cemetery, New Orleans
… GPR data could be used reliably to locate burials in the cemetery. The study's result indicates that GPR is a reliable source for burial detection and other anomalies in the subsurface.
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The Other Body: Persons in Viking Age Multiple Burials in Scandinavia and the Western Diaspora
Multiple burials— generally defined as the presence of more than one individual within a grave— are a common feature of the Viking Age mortuary landscape throughout Scandinavia and the lands of the Western Diaspora. Even though a number of spectacular examples have captured the imagination of …
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Identity as process: an archaeological and osteological study of Early Bronze Age burials in northern England.
… identities, and chronology of Early Bronze Age burials in northern England. Processes of life, death and burial are identified as a way of evaluating the lifecourse and burial processes of Early Bronze Age individuals. Different burial practices have similar themes of the wrapping and enclosing …
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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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The Construction of Social Identity in Early Iron Age Greek and Eastern Zhou Chinese Burials: A Comparative Approach
… This study has compiled 233 richly furnished burials from Attica and 243 richly furnished burials from the Jin region and aims to incorporate all aspects of material traces into the analysis. To tackle this diverse array of material evidence, this study employs a robust framework consisting of …
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Seasonality and early modern towns: the timing of baptisms, marriages and burials in England, 1560-1750, with particular reference to towns
… the seasonality of baptisms, marriages and burials in early modern towns, and demonstrates that seasonality (which measures how the frequency of vital events varied through the year) is a useful method of examining aspects of social history. Chapter 1 looks at the background to the use of …
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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
… Beginning with a statistical overview of 555 burials representing the remains of 810 people, 438 from Ireland and 372 from Scotland, several subtle trends are revealed relating to the age or sex of the deceased which hint at broad differences between categories of people. However, it is clear …
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The analysis of funerary and ritual practices in Wales between 3600-1200 BC based on osteological and contextual data
… the deposition of single inhumation or cremation burials in inconspicuous pit graves. After a hiatus in the Late Neolithic (c. 2900-2400 BC), formal burials re-appeared in the Chalcolithic (c. 2500-2200 BC) with Beaker burials. However, formal burials remained relatively rare until the Early …
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Burial Chronological Sequencing of the Colonial Maya Cemetery at Tipu, Belize Using Fluoride Ion Analysis
<p>This thesis ascertains the sequence of burials using fluoride ion electrode analysis at the colonial cemetery at Tipu, Belize in order to explore demographic and other cultural effects associated with European contact. The cemetery at Tipu in west central Belize, dating from within the first …
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Fluorine Dating Of Human Bone At The Pre-Columbian Maya Cemetery Of Caves Branch Rockshelter, Belize
… CBR is a cemetery containing at least 400 burials from the late Preclassic to the Postclassic periods. The intensive use and reuse of the site has disturbed the burial matrices, making it difficult to seriate the burials. Fluorine dating analyzes the amount of fluorine that has accumulated …
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SKELETAL EVIDENCE FOR ELITE CRAFT SPECIALIZATION AMONG THE TERMINAL CLASSIC MAYA OF COPÁN, HONDURAS
The burials beneath the workshops of Patio H at the 9N-8 compound of Copan, Honduras were examined for signs of occupational markers and skeletal robusticity to indicate if these people were craft specialists. According to archaeological evidence, crafting activity at this location included both …
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The effects of lime on the decomposition of buried human remains. A field and laboratory based study for forensic and archaeological application.
The inclusion of lime in burials is observed in historical and archaeological records, in contemporary mass graves and forensic cases. Clearly there are controversies within the literature and there is a general misconception of the effects of lime on decomposition. Recent casework in Belgium and …
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Identifying the dead : eighteenth century mortuary practices at Cobern Street, Cape Town
… salvage excavations unearthed approximately 65 burials and scattered skeletal material (both historical and precolonial) representing a total of 121 individuals. A variety of cultural material was found with the burials. The following is a summary of the excavation activities, and a detailed …
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