Cemeteries on a moving frontier: Mortuary practices and the spread of pastoralism from the Sahara into eastern Africa
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2018.08.001
Abstract: Abstract Today, pastoral systems in eastern Africa are supported by elaborate social networks that minimize risk and facilitate the movement of people, animals, and resources across unpredictable, semi-arid landscapes. Although similar structures must have existed… read more here.
Keywords: mortuary practices; eastern africa; sahara eastern; cemeteries moving ... See more keywords
Great Lakes Copper and Shared Mortuary Practices on the Atlantic Coast: Implications for Long-Distance Exchange during the Late Archaic
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DOI: 10.1017/aaq.2019.59
Abstract: Analysis of human remains and a copper band found in the center of a Late Archaic (ca. 5000–3000 cal BP) shell ring demonstrate an exchange network between the Great Lakes and the coastal southeast United… read more here.
Keywords: mortuary practices; que las; late archaic; que ... See more keywords
Living with death: what moral consideration of mortuary practices reveals about the plurality of worldviews in the multi-millennial past of Central Fennoscandia
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DOI: 10.1080/1751696x.2019.1681744
Abstract: ABSTRACT Mortuary practices evident in the materiality of Central Fennoscandia in Northern Europe are interpreted here rather unconventionally as expressions of morality. This is defined as the culturally approved way to manage death, without scruples.… read more here.
Keywords: death; central fennoscandia; mortuary practices; living death ... See more keywords