On Tuesday, March 17th at 2 PM, our online lecture series will be inaugurated by Pascal Sellier, senior researcher at the #CNRS: “#Archaeoanthropology and the concept of the mortuary #chaîneopératoire: A historical and technical perspective on #funerarypractices.”

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Mardi 17 à 14h, notre cycle de conférence en ligne sera inauguré par Pascal Sellier, chercheur émérite au #CNRS, sur le sujet “ #Archaeoanthropology and the concept of the mortuary #chaîneopératoire: A historical and technical perspective on #funerarypractices”

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Earliest evidence for intentional cremation of human remains in Africa The world’s oldest in situ adult funeral pyre (~9500 years old) shows complex mortuary behaviors among ancient African foragers.

🔥 Earliest cremation evidence in Africa (~9500 yrs ago)! #ICArEHB's Gina Buckley & Flora Schilt co-author Science Advances paper: doi.org/10.1126/scia... #FuneraryPractices #Archaeology

Earliest African cremation was 9,500 years ago https://arstechni.ca #funerarypractices #burialpractices #anthropology #Archaeology #cremation #Science

The map shows the location of the six study sites in present-day France; the graph shows the chronology of their occupation. The sites in the Aisne-Marne culture are shown in orange, the sites in the Champagne region outside the Aisne-Marne culture are shown in green, and the sites in Normandy are shown in blue (E. Caserta)

Diagram showing the relationships between categories and sub-categories covered by the study protocol and the basic principle of the scoring system. Each of these categories is then subdivided into several items (E. Caserta)

🚩In our latest issue of the #BMSAP, discover the article by Elodie Caserta, Lola Bonnabel, and Gaëlle Granier @univ-amu.fr

“ #Funerarypractices of Second #IronAge populations in #Gaul: new research perspectives and preliminary studies of cases from Champagne and Normandy”

doi.org/10.4000/14ywm

Archaeologists Found Strange Prehistoric Spheres in the Amazon—Inside Were Bones That Don’t Belong Together A mysterious set of ancient ceramic spheres has been unearthed deep in the Amazon, revealing unusual contents that could upend what we thought we knew about pre-Columbian rainforest cultures.

#Archaeologists Found Strange #Prehistoric Spheres in the #Amazon —Inside Were #Bones That Don’t Belong Together share.google/5lnQOP1GXOwm...

#archeology #prehistory #SouthAmerica #funerarypractices #science #AmazonRiverBasin #AmazonRiver

"Cremation in the Early Middle Ages" aims to be a central resource for anyone interested in early medieval cremations, or indeed funerary practices more generally.

💻: tinyurl.com/mz9ksenu
#Cremation #FuneraryPractices #FuneraryRituals

Microbotanical analysis in artifacts of the CABUZA phase (900–1200 ce), Azapa Valley, northern Chile: Vessels and rites of “eating and drinking with the dead” in post-Tiwanaku times
https://buff.ly/3KqOw5v
#ArchaeometryDec2024
#AgriculturalPlants #FuneraryPractices #TiwanakuState