Taphonomy and the nature of archaeological assemblages

ALW Stodder - Biological anthropology of the human skeleton, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
An introduction to the range of factors that affect the composition and condition of human
bone assemblages recovered from archaeological contexts, with discussion of the …

Stronger together: Advancing a global bioarchaeology

BJ Baker, SC Agarwal - Bioarchaeology International, 2017 - journals.upress.ufl.edu
Bioarchaeology is a relatively young field that aims to improve our understanding of life,
death, and interrelationships among past humans around the globe. The discipline grew out …

The power of relics: the curation of human bone in British Bronze Age burials

J Brück, TJ Booth - European Journal of Archaeology, 2022 - cambridge.org
In this article, the authors examine radiocarbon, histo-taphonomic, and contextual evidence
for the deliberate curation, manipulation, and redeposition of human bone in British Bronze …

Painting personhood: red pigment practices in southern Peru

JL Bongers, V Muros, C O'Shea, JG Mejía… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract In the Chincha Valley of southern Peru, pigmented human remains and grave
goods were found in over 100 large and accessible mortuary structures associated with the …

[HTML][HTML] Integrating Data on Early Medieval Graves: Mapping the THANADOS database to the ARIADNE infrastructure with the Mortuary Data Application Profile

E Aspöck, N Richards, A Felicetti, M Theodoridou… - Internet …, 2023 - intarch.ac.uk
The ARIADNE Ontology is a modular ontology designed to describe the datasets that are
being aggregated in the ARIADNEplus infrastructure (Richards et al. 2020). The …

The ambivalent dead: curation, excarnation and complex post-mortem trajectories in Middle and Late Bronze Age Britain

J Brück, TJ Booth - Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 2022 - cambridge.org
This paper sets out the results of radiocarbon, histological, and contextual analysis of human
remains from non-mortuary contexts in Middle and Late Bronze Age Britain. In the latter …

8 Human osteoarchaeology in Greece: an overview of the past 10 years and directions for the following 10

E Nikita - Archaeological Reports, 2024 - cambridge.org
Human osteoarchaeology, the study of human skeletal remains from archaeological
contexts, has a long history in Greece. This review paper examines the developments that …

Secondary burial cemeteries, visibility and land tenure: A view from the southern Levant Chalcolithic period

R Winter-Livneh, T Svoray, I Gilead - Journal of Anthropological …, 2012 - Elsevier
Off-site secondary burial cemeteries in the southern Levant are an innovation of the
Chalcolithic period. Ethnographic studies suggest that location of burial places was one of …

Biological and spatial structure of an early classic period cemetery at Charco Redondo, Oaxaca

KS Paul, CM Stojanowski… - American Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This article presents an analysis of biological and spatial patterning of an Early Classic (AD
250–500) Chatino cemetery at the archaeological site of Charco Redondo, located in the …

Eight Human Skulls in a Dung Heap and More: Ritual practice in the terp region of the northern Netherlands 600 BC AD 300

A Nieuwhof - 2015 - torrossa.com
The terp of Englum is one of a series of artificial dwelling mounds on the left bank of the river
Reitdiep, in a former salt marsh region in the northwestern part of the most northern Dutch …