Multiple Burials
6 Followers
Recent papers in Multiple Burials
15 years ago four Neolithic graves with multiple burials were excavated near the village of Eulau in Saxony-Anhalt/ Germany. In the graves were thirteen individuals - five adults and eight children who were victims of a violent conflict... more
The paper aims at analysing the social factors connected with the increase of sequential multiple burials around the first quarter of the Second Millennium BC in Egypt. In particular, in the late Middle Kingdom, the practice of multiple... more
Excavation and interpretation of multiple burials are a challenge for both archaeologists and anthropologists. In our work, we explore possible causes and formation processes of a multiple burial from the Copper Age recovered at... more
La sépulture mise au jour dans la basilique des Saints Martyrs Just et Pastor a fait l’objet d’une étude anthropologique détaillée, visant à caractériser l’échantillon squelettique exhumé d’un point de vue biologique. En l’absence de... more
Although in the post-Roman transition (Late Antiquity) intense socioeconomic, cultural and environmental changes took place in NW Iberia, their impact in the life of local communities is barely known. The funerary rites and burial are... more
Bezeichnend für die prähistorische Archäologie ist, dass der Hauptschwerpunkt und die Schwierigkeit des Faches darin liegen, sich mit schriftlosen Menschen und Kulturen zu befassen. Aus diesem Grund war die prähistorische Archäologie seit... more
This paper examines a dataset of multiple burials in early Anglo-Saxon England previously published by Nick Stoodley in 2002. The focus here is on updating his research with post-2002 data and reassessing his conclusions. Stoodley's paper... more