Ochre and Identity: An Exploration of Perinatal Mortality, Personhood and Social Acknowledgement at Khok Phanom Di, Central Thailand | Cambridge Archaeological Journal | Cambridge Core Ochre and Identity: An Exploration of Perinatal Mortality, Personhood and Social Acknowledgement at Khok Phanom Di, Central Thailand

🏺 A new study has looked at the use of ochre in #Neolithic burials at Khok Phanom Di in #Thailand. Ochre was apparently used as a marker of identity and burials without ochre were predominantly perinates.

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Cremation in the Early Middle Ages
Death, fire and identity in North-West Europe
edited by Howard Williams & Femke Lippok

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Today as part of the #FuneraryArchaeology lunches we had Mary Lewis talk to us about her research on puberty in Upoer Paleolithic remains

Looking forward to today's Accordia Early Career Talk, where Sarah Defiant and I will present our new research: "In their bones: ‘new’ methods to unearth #LateAntique Ligurian societies".
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Abingdon: Human burial site discovered beneath car park Human burials and remains of a stone wall were discovered beneath a cattle market car park.

Human burial site discovered under car park

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Emergence of corpse cremation during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the Southern Levant: A multidisciplinary study of a pyre-pit burial Renewed excavations at the Neolithic site of Beisamoun (Upper Jordan Valley, Israel) has resulted in the discovery of the earliest occurrence of an intentional cremation in the Near East directly dated to 7031–6700 cal BC (Pre-Pottery Neolithic C, also known as Final PPNB, which spans ca. 7100–6400 cal BC). The funerary treatment involved in situ cremation within a pyre-pit of a young adult individual who previously survived from a flint projectile injury. In this study we have used a multidisciplinary approach that integrates archaeothanatology, spatial analysis, bioanthropology, zooarchaeology, soil micromorphological analysis, and phytolith identification in order to reconstruct the different stages and techniques involved in this ritual: cremation pit construction, selection of fuel, possible initial position of the corpse, potential associated items and funerary containers, fire management, post-cremation gesture and structure abandonment. The origins and development of cremation practices in the region are explored as well as their significance in terms of Northern-Southern Levantine connections during the transition between the 8th and 7th millennia BC.

Emergence of the practice of cremation in the Near East 9000 years ago: read it here
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