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ANCIENT RUSS COMPLEX OF AVTUNICH: BY THE DATA OF CRANIOLOGY Summary The article deals with the detailed characteristic of data from Northern Chernihiv region by the results of studies at a huge medieval mound burial ground (10th – 13th... more
A lot has been written about the Celts and about their faith and beliefs. Generally this means the druid beliefs that were present in England just before the Romans turned up. The big problem is that the only contemporary reports of this... more
""En Filipo II y el Arte de la Guerra tendremos la oportunidad de conocer en profundidad a uno de los más grandes reyes de la antigua Macedonia. Gracias a su habilidad como estratega, diplomático, político y soldado, heredó un reino... more
The study of burials in ancient world is one of the most important sources to recognize religions, culture and ideological beliefs of ancient peoples. In the Sassanid eras, also it seems that by appearing Zarathustra as an official... more
The identification of deviant burials as those of ‘vampires’ is a feature of excavated skeletons from sites across Eastern, Central and Southern Europe as well as the Balkans. Based on a close reading of historic and folkloric sources... more
Ce volume de Préhistoire Anthropologie Méditerranéennes est consacré dans son intégralité aux actes de la table ronde « La valeur fonctionnelle des objets sépulcraux » organisée en octobre 2006 à la Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de... more
The study of the inhumation cemeteries of Late Iron Age Scotland tends to revolve around the vexed question of whether or not they provide evidence for Christianity. As a result, our approach has been to look for ‘Christian’ practices... more
Mycenae culture became due to its own merits, the most important one in continental Greece for more than four centuries all along the II Millennium B.C. Its commercial importance due to the fact they took advantage of the minoans exchange... more
Article about the scientific study and reburial of the ducal familiy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin 1713-1813 in the so called Schelfkirche Schwerin
There is now a general scholarly consensus that the concentration of rural people into settlements in Western Europe (as opposed to dispersed or scattered habitations across the countryside) occurred in various stages between the eighth... more
Accompanying the EH I burial of a young woman from the precinct of the sanctuary of Apollon Maleatas at Epidauros a necklace with a pendant was found. It is composed of an ovoid plaque of schist, fish teeth attached to its surface and two... more
The article analyzes the inventory of burials with psalia in the cultures of the Bronze Age of steppe Eurasia. The collection, where the first version of this article was submitted, had not been published for several years. During this... more
Burnt osteological materials are one focus of interest in forensic, archaeological, and palaeontological studies. We document the effects of experimental, controlled heating on a sample of modern bones and teeth from sheep and goats. Four... more
The paper addresses the issues of the decline of Great Scythia and the Sarmatian conquest of the Northern Black Sea region. On the basis of archaeological information the authors made a conclusion on the absence of a correlation between... more
The author finds that cemeteries in early first millennium Japan reflect the associations of family with land. The burial parties of a core settlement could be seen to be referring to earlier burials in a dynastic or genealogical... more
Death is the end of life of any living being. It is the losing of consciousness in this living world. Each culture has its own beliefs about the meaning and purpose of life and to what happens after death. The concept of death is... more