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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… 
Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
BLACK GOO: Forceful Encounters with Matter in Europe's Muddy Margins
This article undertakes an evocative conjuration of alternative visions of materialism through consideration of intermediary… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Death and the Ancestors: A Study of the Mortuary Customs of the LoDagaa of West Africa
Part 1: General Background1. The People and the Problem2. Approaches to the Study of Mortuary Institutions3. The Analysis of… 
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… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Excavations in the ceremonial complex of the fourth to 2nd millennium BC at Balfarg/Balbirnie, Glenrothes, Fife
The portions of the Balfarg/Balbirnie ceremonial complex excavated between 1983 and 1985 are described and related to the… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
The Monuments That Stood before Marathon: Tomb Cult and Hero Cult in Archaic Attica
This paper seeks to relate the form of the Marathon tumulus to both tomb and hero cult as practiced in Attica in the Archaic… 
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… 
Highly Cited
1980
Highly Cited
1980
Mississippian mortuary practices : a case study of two cemeteries in the lower Illinois Valley
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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