The study of human remains from the perspective of forensic taphonomy facilitates a holistic
understanding of ancient funerary behavior, and it is even more important when dealing with …

Pits are the most common archaeological features in late prehistoric Europe, yet their
function and formation dynamics remain obscure. This paper draws on stratigraphy …

This dissertation research is a bioarchaeological investigation of Late Neolithic through
Early Bronze Age (3600-1800 BC) burial populations from the Portuguese Estremadura. In …

Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic Southwest Iberian zoomorphic figurines stand out in the
context of zoomorphic representations for their scarcity, most of them occurring in funerary …

Perdigões is a large site with a set of ditched enclosures located at Reguengos de
Monsaraz, Alentejo, South Portugal. Recently at the central area of this site burnt human …

This study analyses the funerary activity of small collective tombs with a limited number of
individuals in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula during the Copper Age. These small …

The Iberian Peninsula is rich in caves, rockshelters, avens and rock fissures which were
used for the deposition of the dead from the Palaeolithic until early historical times. This …

It has recently been suggested by British archaeologists and anthropologists that
mummification may have been widespread in Bronze Age Europe. This article presents the …

The protohistoric graveyards of north-western Pakistan were first excavated in the 1960s, but
their chronology is still debated, along with their relationship to broader regional issues of …

Resting in Peace or in Pieces? studies Tomb I, a tholos type structure found in the Perdigões
Archaeological Complex (Évora, Portugal) from the first half of the 3rd millennium BC. The …