The Use of Ethnographic Information in Cremation Studies

Ward, Stacey; Tayles, Nancy

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“…In this regard ethnohistorical studies of cremation on the American NorthWest coast (Kan, 1989) and the diversity of cremation rituals in India outside of the high-caste Brahmin rites usually studied (Århem, 1989;ManiBabu, 1994;Vitebsky, 1993) can be cited. Equally, there are informative variations in cremation rites in southeast Asia to compliment the repeated study of Balinese cremation (Hudson, 1966;Ward and Tayles, 2015). To date, these studies have had restricted use in reconstructing formal procedures (McKinley, 1994), but there remain many other levels by which analogies might be of relevance to the study of the social significance, the symbolism and the contexts of cremation in past societies.…”

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Towards an Archaeology of Cremation

Williams

2015

The Analysis of Burned Human Remains

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Towards an Archaeology of Cremation

Williams

2015

The Analysis of Burned Human Remains

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Bioarchaeology in the ancientNearEast: Challenges and future directions for the southern Levant

Sheridan

2017

American J Phys Anthropol

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The synthesis of biological anthropology, archaeology, and social theory provides a bioarchaeological model to reconstruct nuanced aspects of demography, diet, disease, death, daily activities, and biodistance, even in the absence of discrete burials. Numerous skeletal assemblages in the southern Levant are composed of mixed and fragmented bones resulting from generational use of cemeteries, mass burial, and additional communal burial practices. Others become commingled due to taphonomic processes such as flooding, geological events, or human mediated mechanisms like looting, improper excavation, and poor curation. Such collections require one to ask broader questions of human adaptability, exercise a holistic approach, use broad demographic categories, and remain cognizant of the limitations posed by fragmentation. Expanded research questions and ethical considerations, the use of centralized databases and understudied collections, as well as the application of social media, citizen science, and crowd sourcing provide new tools for bioarchaeological analyses of the many commingled ancient Near Eastern collections in the southern Levant.

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Determining the Postmortem Timing of Sharp Force Damage and the Pre-burning Condition of Burnt Bone

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Márquez‐Grant

2023

J Archaeol Method Theory

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The Use of Ethnographic Information in Cremation Studies

Cited by 3 publications

References 31 publications

Towards an Archaeology of Cremation

Towards an Archaeology of Cremation

Bioarchaeology in the ancientNearEast: Challenges and future directions for the southern Levant

Determining the Postmortem Timing of Sharp Force Damage and the Pre-burning Condition of Burnt Bone

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