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Situated in the heart of Paris, France, Père-Lachaise is a magnificent monumental cemetery with more than two centuries of history. Every year 2.5 million people visit Père-Lachaise as if it was a big open air museum; every day hundreds... more
In current environmental discourse, disposal does not remove and destroy waste but rather transforms it into something useful or harmful and/or re-locates it. This article shows how this operates when the ‘waste’ comprises human remains,... more
Forget your perfect offering There is a crack, a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in —Leonard Cohen (Anthem) India has the largest deer species in the world. There was one rufous-fawn white-spotted doe that I still remember.... more
This article is dedicated to the former Catholic cemetery in Czerniowce Podolskie (Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine). In the spring of 2009, a group of students under the supervision of the authors conducted a field study, the purpose of which... more
In 1835, a governmental decree established public cemeteries. In that year, the Cemetery of Prazeres was inaugurated, with new funeral ceremonies and a tomb art adapted to the cult of the Lisbon bourgeoisie. Texts that allude to this... more
Throughout the nineteenth century, Maskilic journals increased their publication of anti-Hasidic satires. From the eighteen-sixties onward, this literature came primarily as a response to the revival in the publishing of Hasidic... more
Archaeological researches in the Reformed Church of Telekfalva (Abstract) The archaeological excavation in the Reformed church of Telekfalva brought important results in cognition of the church history and architecture in the Late Middle... more
Tema doktorskog rada vezana je uz područje Komarničkog arhiđakonata koji je u Popisu župa zagrebačke biskupije 1501. godine podijeljen na Gornju (Superior) i Donju Komarnicu (Inferior Kamarcza). Na tom je području upravna organizacija... more
Tekst govori o arhitekturi i prostornom planiranju groblja u Hrvatskoj od vremena vladanja Josipa II do danas. Obrađeni su najvažniji primjeri grobljanskih kompleksa, te važnije grobljanske kapele i mauzoleji.
The research study aims to investigate the reasons why people have found shelter and have continued to live inside the Manila North Cemetery. Furthermore, the research study also aims to reveal the ways on how people have sustained their... more
This study aims to understand the Monastery of S. Salvador of Vairão after the extinction of religious orders, namely the new uses of the complex, and the construction of the public cemetery. The construction of the cemetery begun in... more
Excavations by Archaeological Research and Consultancy University of Sheffield in 2007–8 revealed the remains of an Anglo-Saxon inhumation cemetery at North Ridge Community School, Woodlands, Doncaster. Forty graves were excavated,... more
Two interesting graves with cremation burials from Ptuj are presented in the article, which differ from the usual grave of the Ruše Urnfield group in terms of the grave goods. The gradual stratification of society is reflected in them,... more
The history of lych-gates in Newfoundland, with notes on their origin in English churchyard, and the relationship between the lych-gate and funeral ritual.
Paper presented at the XVIII ISFNR Congress, held in Zagreb, 5-8 September 2021 (BNN Panel "Fear of the Other").
The burials from the cemetery at Vetricella have been analyzed following an archaeological and anthropological approach in an attempt to answer both general issues and specific questions tied-in to a distinctive archeological context, not... more
"Thapsos is the name-site of the Sicilian Middle Bronze Age. It lies in south-eastern Sicily, in the gulf of Augusta, on a low lying limestone promontory connected to the mainland by a narrow isthmus. The site was systematically... more
"Two (local) Middle Bronze Age sites in Sicily are known for having yielded Cypriot imports: Thapsos to southeast, and Cannatello in the south-central part of the island. These imports come from contexts with a strong intercultural... more
“Carnivalesque” is perhaps the best, if not the only way to describe what was going on at the Bab al-Saghir Cemetery that hot summer afternoon in 2008. In front of the graves of the Prophet’s wives, Shi‘i pilgrims could buy Viagra,... more
"Velikim arheološkim istraživanjima akvedukta na Viminacijumu prethodila su sistematska geofi zička snimanja zone ugrožene radovima površinskog kopa „Drmno“. Korišćenjem georadara (GPR – Ground Penetrating Radar) utvrđena je tačna trasa... more
The chapel of St Peter and Paul in Zagreb`s central cemetery Mirogoj belongs to a group of the most interesting sacral buildings erected in Croatia`s capital at the end of the 19th century. It is one of the first monumental mausoleums... more
Exploring the construction and maintenance of Nationalist Chinese soldiers' graves overseas, this article sheds light on post-World War II commemorative politics. After having fought for the Allies against Japanese aggression in the... more
People in the Neolithic Near Eastern societies buried their dead in various locations. Most often the deceased were buried in the settlement associated with certain building structures and in courtyards. However, excavations in the... more
ABSTRACT: In this article, I edit and analyze an oral legend that was communicated to me by don Luis Marín (b. 1943), great repository of the oral tradition of Guanajuato (Mexico) in 2018. It is a legend known in the state of Guanajuato... more
A Salgótarjáni és Kozma utcai zsidó temetők síremlékei között különleges csoportot alkotnak az egyiptizáló stílusban épült síremlékek és családi mauzóleumok, amelyek nagyszerűen illusztrálják az ókori egyiptomi művészet hazai... more
Short summary of the results of the excavation in Mezőhegyes in 2017, where we discovered the edge of a cemetery around a church and a roof tile kiln from the Arpadian Age in addition to an earlier ditch. Fragments of various roof tiles... more
Preliminary report on the excavation of the Sarmatian cemetery at Csanádpalota–Country Border, Motorway M43, Site 56 Site 56, Motorway M43 is located south of Csanádpalota. The total excavation area was situated between stream Krakk and... more