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Category Archives: Funeral Practices

Using Teeth to Interpret Social Status and Childhood Health in Historic Japan

March 1, 2016by Kate Meyers Emery 2 Comments

Our bones are pretty amazing- they keep a record of what has happened to us throughout our lifetime. Bones show the trauma and disease we faced, how well we healed […]

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Funeral Practices, Pathology

Upright Burial: A Mesolithic and Modern Phenomenon?

February 17, 2016by Kate Meyers Emery 3 Comments

Recently, the popular news has been fascinated with the discovery of an upright burial from a Mesolithic cemetery site in Germany. Rightly so! Upright burials are an extremely rare phenomenon, […]

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Funeral Practices

Buried with a Sickle: Death’s Scythe or Anti-Demon Protection?

December 16, 2015by Kate Meyers Emery 8 Comments

Scythes and sickles have a very clear symbolic association for modern populations. The personification of death is traditionally pictured with a scythe (full size version pictured to the right) or sickle […]

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Funeral Practices

Climate Change and the Chinchorro Mummies

March 17, 2015by Kate Meyers Emery 9 Comments

The Chinchorro mummies are quite different from the traditional linen-wrapped mummies of Egypt that we often equate this the term ‘mummy’. Recently, these mummies from Chile and Peru have become […]

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Funeral Practices, Mummies

The Transition from Living to Dead in Neolithic Italy

March 10, 2015by Kate Meyers Emery 3 Comments

I am a huge fan of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series of novels. They are a perfect blend of intellectual references, irreverent creativity and humor that is perfect for breaking down the […]

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Bioarchaeology, Funeral Practices

Reuse of Cemeteries in Prehistoric Ireland

January 27, 2015by Kate Meyers Emery 3 Comments

With the cold weather and ice descending upon the Midwest, I’ve found myself spending more time watching HGTV than I normally do. My favorite shows are the fixer upper ones, […]

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Funeral Practices

Not All Are Buried Here: Selective Burial in Prehistoric Spain

January 13, 2015by Kate Meyers Emery 2 Comments

Interpreting cemeteries in order to understand the living population is a dangerous and difficult task. On the one hand, cemeteries are really our only form of information about the actual […]

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Bioarchaeology, Funeral Practices

The Headless Romans: Headhunting, Defeated Gladiators or Natural River Movement?

December 11, 2014by Kate Meyers Emery 9 Comments

In the Walbrook Valley near the city of London, large numbers of human remains, dating to the Roman occupation of England, have been recovered over the past 175 years- and […]

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Bioarchaeology, Funeral Practices

One Grave Does Not Equal One Person: Hunter-gatherer Graves in Argentina

June 24, 2014by Kate Meyers Emery 1 Comment

There seems to be an assumption that one grave will only hold one individual. Why we assume this is kind of strange given that even today we don’t always bury […]

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Funeral Practices

The Burial That’s Changing British History

March 14, 2014by Kate Meyers Emery 7 Comments

There are a few notable archaeological finds and sites that fall under the category of the ‘Pompeii Effect’. They are the type of thing every archaeologist hopes to discover once […]

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Funeral Practices

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