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Cancer and beyond: the formation of BACUP.

This article describes my experiences as a doctor with cancer and how this has led to the formation of a new cancer organisation in Britain, BACUP (British Association of Cancer United Patientsand their families and friends). BACUP is being launched on 31 October 1985. It will provide a national cancer information service for patients, their relatives, doctors, and other health professionals. T...

Commemorating bodies and lives at Kish’s ‘A Cemetery’: (Re)presenting social memory

Over the course of a decade, the Joint Oxford-Field Museum Expedition to Kish recovered artifacts and skeletal remains from one of the most influential city-states in ancient Mesopotamia. We focus here on the process of commemoration of the dead as evidenced in the graves excavated from Kish’s ‘A Cemetery’. We use skeletal remains, fieldnotes, and artifactual evidence to situate these individua...

A re-assessment of Basketmaker II cave 7: massacre site or cemetery context

Our ongoing investigation of early maize farming in the American Southwest has entailed stable isotope analysis and accelerator radiocarbon dating of Basketmaker II remains from sites in the Four Corners region. Here we report radiocarbon dates on a large mortuary assemblage excavated by RichardWetherill in 1893 from a burial cave in southeastern Utah. It has long been thought that all individu...

Le Morne Cemetery: Archaeological Investigations

De®ning the place of burial: what makes a cemetery a cemetery?

A great deal of material has been written about cemeteries based on the assumption that they constitute a speci®c type of burial place, but few writers have given close attention to the task of describing the features that may be particular to cemeteries. This paper regards cemeteries as speci®cally demarcated sites of burial, with an ordered internal layout that is conducive both to families c...