This study demonstrates that the donkey held a special status in the ceremonial practices of the ancient Near East.doi:10.1179/175638010X12797246583852WayKenneth C.LevantWay, K. C. (2010): "Assessing Sacred Asses: Bronze Age Donkey Burials in the Near East". Levant 42, 210-225....
Animal burials or, more generally, animal interments are archaeological features in which a complete or nearly complete nonhuman animal was placed in a prepared pit or otherwise intentionally cached, installed, or deposited. Nonhuman animal burials are distinguished from other types of deposits, such ...
Sticks and staves are some of ancient Egypt's most versatile tools: they can function as badges of status, walking aids, tools for farmers, weapons for gua... Brown,R Nicholas 被引量: 0发表: 2016年 Frailty, Famine, and Plague: Crisis Mortality in Medieval London Famine can broadly be de...
Helheim was for Viking people who had died from what was considered a dishonourable death. To die in bed of sloth, or to die of old age was not considered brave in old
Whilst, in the absence of the absolute dating of every ivory ring found, the use of ancient ivory cannot be entirely discounted, to date not a single example has been shown to have come from a mammoth, making it increasingly unlikely that it was a source exploited in the Anglo-Saxon ...
This, and other evidence, suggest that attempts were made to return these individuals to the soil in as complete of a state as possible鈥攂eing limited only by the ancient grave-digger's level of anatomical knowledge. A review of the mortuary literature and inquiries made to several leading ...
This definitive study by physical anthropologists will be consulted for decades by archaeologists and anthropologists working in the Levant, Egypt and Mesopotamia, as well as anyone studying ancient Near Eastern migration patterns, skeletal changes, and incidences of ...
The modern population of Fayum appears to reflect the ancient structure much better than the medieval population from Cemetery A in Naqlun. Moreover, there seems to be an evident decrease in racial diversity from antiquity to modern times, but the Naqlun skulls break out from this order....
Predynastic EgyptBioarchaeological studies of animal dung from arid environments provide valuable information on various aspects of life in ancient societies relating to land use and environmental change, and from the Neolithic onwards to the animal husbandry and the use of animals as markers of status...
Burial mound, artificial hill of earth and stones built over the remains of the dead. In England the equivalent term is barrow; in Scotland, cairn; and in Europe and elsewhere, tumulus. In western Europe and the British Isles, burial cairns and barrows d