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Modern Ways the Deceased are Memorialized
The dead are treated and remembered in a range of ways from a simple burial in the old family graveyard to more epic modern treatments like being cremated and shot into outer space. How we interact wi… more →
Bones Don't Lie
Modern Ways the Deceased are Memorialized
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wrote 2 days ago: The dead are treated and remembered in a range of ways from a simple burial in the old family gravey … more →
Cremation: The Hot Burial Trend
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wrote 4 days ago: According to Tyler Mathisen of CNBC news, the hottest growing trend within the ”death care ind … more →
River Congo - Chapter 6
wrote 6 days ago: We come now to what is chapter 3 in Of Chiefs and Giants, which is the second of the two books publi … more →
River Congo- Chapter 6
wrote 1 week ago: Ah progress. Progress. We come now to what is chapter 3 in Of Chiefs and Giants, which is the second … more →
Conversion to Christianity in Viking Age Scandinavia
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wrote 1 week ago: Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen Ansgar the preaching Christianity to the heathen Swedes, via Wikimedia … more →
Learning About Life From Death in Akhenaten's Egypt
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wrote 1 week ago: The city of Amarna was a 17 year period of change and drama in Egypt’s ancient history. It was … more →
Ambohimahamasina -The Place of the Ancestors
wrote 1 week ago: This is a holy mountain for the Traditional Religions of Madagascar. They believe that their ancesto … more →
The Tombs Look Like Houses
wrote 2 weeks ago: Tombs are extremely important to the Malagasy. On each of my research trips to Madagascar, I spent a … more →
On feasting, food and funerals
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wrote 2 weeks ago: This past Tuesday I had the pleasure of attending Anthony Bourdain’s Guts and Glory tour, his … more →
Dead and Buried
wrote 3 weeks ago: Dead and Buried is an innovative research project that enagages a group of young people (not in educ … more →
Between Death and Burial
wrote 3 weeks ago: Screenshot from Weekend at Bernie’s, via Scientific American and Kyle Hill There are many thin … more →
Taphonomy: What Happens To Bones After Burial?
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wrote 1 month ago: Last week I discussed a way of preserving bodies almost indefinitely in some cases: embalming. On th … more →
Displaying the Famous Political Dead
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wrote 1 month ago: Embalming Chemicals, via Wikimedia Preservation of a body is an interesting phenomenon, whether it b … more →
Rent a mourner ...
wrote 1 month ago: Rent a mourner … Now this is interesting … measuring one’s popularity by the numbe … more →
Sacrifice Based On Settlement and Subsistence
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wrote 2 months ago: Frozen Sacrificed Incan Child Mummy from Argentina, via National Geographic Sacrifice is a delicate … more →
St. Patrick's Day
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wrote 2 months ago: Church of St. Patrick in Dublin, via Infomatique on Flickr St. Patrick was born in 387 CE in Great B … more →
Ring-Fenced Burials from Roman Colchester
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wrote 2 months ago: Wooden Marker Slowly Destroyed by Decay, via Sventek Herald-Observer Sometimes, when we discover bur … more →
Funeral photography
wrote 3 months ago: Is this a new trend? I use photography to capture people, landscapes and events so I can re-experie … more →
The Swept Up Remains of Infants
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wrote 4 months ago: The treatment of infants in the past can vary significantly from their treatment in modern times; wh … more →
