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Mortuary Practice

Known as: Mortuary Practices, Practice, Mortuary, Practices, Mortuary 
Activities associated with the disposition of the dead. It excludes cultural practices such as funeral rites.
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Highly Cited
2016
Highly Cited
2016
New evidence for diverse secondary burial practices in Iron Age Britain: A histological case study
Highly Cited
2014
Highly Cited
2014
Subsistence and social change in central Eurasia: stable isotope analysis of populations spanning the Bronze Age transition
2005
2005
ARSENIASIS AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL HYPOTHETICAL EXPLANATION FOR THE ORIGIN OF THE OLDEST ARTIFICIAL MUMMIFICATION PRACTICE IN THE WORLD
En este ensayo se postula que el origen de la momificacion de los Chinchorro, la mas antigua del mundo, fue provocado por un… 
2004
2004
Social dimensions of camelid domestication in the southern Andes
Les chasseurs-cueilleurs hierarchises se distinguent des chasseurs egalitaires ou generalistes par un acces non egalitaire aux… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Negotiating Equality through Ritual: A Consideration of Late Natufian and Prepottery Neolithic A Period Mortuary Practices
Mortuary rituals, specifically secondary mortuary practices with the socially sanctioned removal of all or some parts of the… 
Review
1995
Review
1995
Material culture and social death: African-American burial practices
Orlando Patterson has proposed that the institution of slavery caused the “social death” of slaves, in that the inherited… 
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… 
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… 
Review
1990
Review
1990
The historical archaeology of mortuary behavior: Coffin hardware from Uxbridge, Massachusetts
A popular cultural trend developed in late 18th- and 19th-century American mortuary practices. Called “the beautification of… 
Highly Cited
1975
Highly Cited
1975
Social inference and mortuary practices: an experiment in numerical classification.
Abstract Recent cross‐cultural studies of ethnographically recorded mortuary procedures indicate that variations in the form of… 
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