Cultural Modifications in an Adolescent Earth-Oven Interment from Fiji: Sorting out Mortuary Practice
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The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology
The incomplete skeletal remains of a young adolescent (10–12 years of age) recovered from the surface of an earth-oven in Qaranicagi Cave, Site Y2–39, Waya Island, Fiji are used to explore mortuary practices in these islands. Mortuary practices in Fiji are documented in explorer and missionary accounts, and a limited number of excavated burials. Additionally, cannibalism is ethnographically and...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1556-4894,1556-1828
DOI: 10.1080/15564890701228579