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Dec 3, 2019 · Instead of reducing their access to end of life process, movement forward should focus on elevating women’s values and acknowledging their labor, a return to the days when care--in the home, of the children, and at the deathbed--was equated with the roles of goddesses.
Beyond the symbolic functions related to identity, the necklace is believed to have played a key role in performing the inhumation rituals, understood as a public event gathering families ...
Jun 23, 2009 · Both cremation and inhumation were employed in the British Early Bronze Age, and the significance of the distinction between these practices has long been a matter of debate. Many authors have argued that the choice of mortuary treatment reflects differences in status.
- Joanna Bruck
- 2009
Jun 13, 2022 · A unique archaeological contribution has revealed funerary rites that were never documented in religious texts, highlighting the agency of mourners and the role of families and communities, particularly women.
Jun 26, 2023 · The majority of these graves, however, are double burials (Boyle 2011, 156). One notable exception is the apparently contemporaneous five individuals in Grave 81—two adult females, two children (around two to three and six to seven years old), and an infant 15 to 18 months (Boyle et al 1998, 89–91; Boyle 2011, 156).
Due to the high volume of bodies arriving for burial everyday as well as the uniformity of Shia Islamic burial rituals, protocols have developed to implement an efficient division of labour and speed up the process.
By Period 4, the majority of men and women were cremated; only three inhumation burials (one male and two female) could be assigned to this period. If we examine the material by burial rite (Table 2), men dominate the inhumation record in Periods 2 and 3: 76% of inhumation burials that could be dated to Period 2 and 57% of those that could be ...
