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Morgue

Known as: Morgues, mortuary 
Location where dead bodies are kept until they are buried or cremated.
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
2014
Highly Cited
2014
Archaeology and the Senses: Human Experience, Memory, and Affect
1. Demolishing the museum of sensory ab/sense 2. Archaeology, modernity, and the senses 3. Recapturing sensorial and affective… 
Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
Emerging genetic patterns of the European Neolithic: perspectives from a late Neolithic Bell Beaker burial site in Germany.
The transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture in Europe is associated with demographic changes that may have shifted… 
Review
2012
Review
2012
The platelet fibrinogen receptor: from megakaryocyte to the mortuary
Platelets are integral to normal haemostatic function and act to control vascular haemorrhage with the formation of a stable clot… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Some Political Processes of Ranked Societies
This article explores the emergence of inequality in two regions of Mesoamerica: the Soconusco and Valley of Oaxaca. Dichotomous… 
1997
1997
Violence and injury mortality in the Cape Town metropole.
OBJECTIVE To describe accurately the violence and injury mortality in a South African city and demonstrate the utility of… 
Review
1991
Review
1991
The human spongiform encephalopathies: kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and the Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome.
Kuru and the transmissible virus dementias Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker syndrome (GSS… 
1988
1988
Nasca mortuary customs : death and ancient society on the south coast of Peru
1988
1988
Early Holocene mortuary practices and hunter-gatherer adaptations in southern Somalia.
Abstract Recent archaeological excavations of a large rocksheiter at Buur Heybe, southern Somalia, resulted in the discovery of… 
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
The anthropology of St. Catherines Island. 3, Prehistoric human biological adaptation. Anthropological papers of the AMNH ; v. 57, pt. 3
Les restes de squelettes de la cote prehistorique de Georgia forment la base de cette etude qui examine les effets de l… 
1980
1980
Epidemic disease in the postcontact southeast: a reappraisal.
  • G. Milner
  • Midcontinental journal of archaeology, MCJA
  • 1980
  • Corpus ID: 45071683
European-introduced disease has previously been cited as contributing to the major postcontact demographic and cultural… 
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