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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"cremation"”.
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Burning S(e)oul: A Body for Cremation
Every year, there are over 70,000 fatalities around Seoul, with only two operating crematoria in the city, that is over 100 bodies a day each institution needs to process efciently. By May 26, it would have been six years since my grandfather was gone in those fames. Threading the remnants of …
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Minoan Funerary Practices During the Bronze Age: With a Study on the Introduction of Cremation to Crete
… in the funerary remains. The introduction of cremation to Crete is a drastic change to the island where the main form of burial has been inhumation since the Early Minoan period. Cremation is first noted in areas that have strong trade connections. Cremation is commonly used in the Near East …
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The analysis of funerary and ritual practices in Wales between 3600-1200 BC based on osteological and contextual data
… involved 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 …
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Animals, Identity and Cosmology: Mortuary Practice in Early Medieval Eastern England
… contexts was a routine feature of Anglo-Saxon cremation ritual, and less frequently of inhumations, until the introduction of Christianity during the 7th century. Most interpretation has focused either on the animal as symbolic of identity or as an indication of pagan belief, with little …
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Environmental Issues Associated with Crematoria: A Review
… regulations towards the industrial process of cremation, it was necessary to infer the data into a more relatable output. Although modern cremation has been in practice for over a century, it can be said that measures to improve and mitigate impacts on the environment have moved quite slow. The …
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Mercury emissions from crematoria
… fillings contain 50% mercury, which under cremation conditions is totally vaporised and emitted from the stack either as the metallic vapour or in the oxidised form. Mercury is a cumulative poison with varying biochemical effects according to concentration and species, inter alia. Although …
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Taken to the grave. An archaeozoological approach assessing the role of animals as crematory offerings in first millennium AD Britain.
… is used to suggest that although pyrolysis and cremation practices fragment and distort burnt bone assemblages, careful analysis can reveal a wealth of data leading to the interpretation of various forms of pyre good. The results of the author¿s analysis of material from the sites of Brougham, …
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RE-IMAGINING SPACES IN A PANDEMIC RESPONSE : THE SCHOOL INFIRMARY AND THE STADIUM CREMATORIUM
… notions of the stadium dictate that only cremation is permitted across all religious and cultural backgrounds. And under pandemic circumstances, cremation is by far the most efficient and quickest way of body disposal (and virus eradication). The new intervention of a ‘glass tunnel’ of …
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A Descending Columbarium
… and is culturally determined only in so far as cremation is an acceptable form of disposal of the deceased. In this sense the building itself becomes a memorial of the dead. With the exclusion of formal ritual as a guiding principle for an architectural expression of the contemplation of death …
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PUBLIC AWARENESS OF AND ATTITUDES TOWARD GREEN BURIAL: AN EXPLORATION OF MESSAGING INTERVENTIONS TO INCREASE ACCEPTANCE OF NATURAL BURIAL PRACTICES
… impact on the environment and human health than cremation or conventional burial, which involves an embalmed body in an ornate casket buried within an impermeable concrete or metal grave liner. The main characteristics of green burial, as defined in this study, is that it is done without …
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Hidden Monuments
… these spaces are under threat: policies favoring cremation, rapid urbanization, and shifting land values render them increasingly invisible or obsolete. In the past few decades, two-thirds of sandam have been displaced, and with fewer than six out of over 100,000 burial sites designated as …
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Necropolis: burial & afterlives in Cape Town
… Cape Town is unique for the popularity of cremation, which accounted for 40% of recorded burials in 2019. Architectural responses however are often piecemeal. Burial places were once part of cities' symbolic centres, and mortality understood as an inevitable spiritual journey. During …
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The final masquerade: a molecular-based approach to the identification of resinous plant exudates in Roman mortuary contexts in Britain and evaluation of their significance
… biomarkers in sixteen inhumation and two cremation burials. The natural products characterized include European Pinaceae (conifer) resins, Pistacia spp. (mastic/terebinth) resins from the Mediterranean or the Levant and Boswellia spp. (frankincense) gum-resins from southern Arabia or …
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A commentary on selected passages of Statius, Thebaid 6
… (84-117), the lament of Eurydice (135-92), the cremation of Opheltes (193-237), the footrace (550- 645), the discus contest (646-730), and the wrestling match (826-910). Throughout, the commentary elucidates the book’s role as a microcosm of the *Thebaid* as a whole: the funeral rites for …
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Buried identities: An osteological and archaeological analysis of burial variation and identity in Anglo-Saxon Norfolk
… Previous research has tended to separate the cremation and inhumation rites. This research has shown that in Norfolk the use of the two rites may have been related and used to convey aspects of identity and / or social position, from a similar or opposing perspective, possibly relating to a …
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Voices and roles of competing groups of elite women in Siam's political and social transitions, 1868-1942
… is based on analysis of personal memoirs from cremation volumes, archival records, and women's magazines. Through considering these source materials, this dissertation reveals the previously overlooked roles of women in Siam's transition from an absolute monarchy to a constitutional monarchy.
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Voices and roles of competing groups of elite women in Siam's political and social transitions, 1868-1942
… is based on analysis of personal memoirs from cremation volumes, archival records, and women's magazines. Through considering these source materials, this dissertation reveals the previously overlooked roles of women in Siam's transition from an absolute monarchy to a constitutional monarchy.
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Public cemeteries and the production of urban space in colonial Seoul, 1910-1945
… place for interment. The rule also introduced cremation into Korean society, a practice that had long been taboo. The gravesite had embodied significant meaning and served important functions within Korean society in the past, but the burial rule changed the whole relationship between the …
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Siting the industrial cemetery : new burial grounds and crematory for Braintree, MA
… surrounding death and burial are also changing. Cremation is beginning to precede over burial for economic and practical reasons, and the rituals of death are becoming less personal. This thesis will address these issues through the critique and design of a new extension for the Blue Hill …
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The Estimation of Biological Profile From Unprocessed Human Cremated Remains
… pulverized or processed cremains, post-cremation weights, differences between sexes and molecular composition. In contrast, this research studies human remains cremated in a commercial crematory retort without pulverization that yielded observations of recognizable skeletal elements that …
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