For the first time, this study presents a natural experiment describing and explaining selected stakeholders’ attitudes toward transformation of cemeteries into urban green spaces. In 2020, real-life community conflict unfolded in Bern, capital Switzerland, over plans to close smallest its three municipal by 2023. This analyzes representative sample (N = 519) city’s adult population that adjace...

Gender has long been recognized as an important structuring agent in Bronze Age communities across Europe. A strong impression of binary gender emerges from some Early cemeteries, and models social organization developed this evidence have greatly influenced understandings the continent. This article focuses on two regions with more equivocal evidence: Ireland Scotland, where idiosyncratic prac...

The world’s population and the proportion of it living in cities urban areas has exploded recent decades. In European Union, 62% lives 80% suburban areas, these proportions are projected to increase further coming It long been researched proven that ‘urban greenery’ can play a major role mitigating so-called heat island effect, during COVID-19 pandemic daily recreation come forefront. combined ...

Hunter-gatherer archaeology typically focusses on the details of subsistence strategies and material culture and, in case cemeteries, various aspects mortuary practices, beliefs, social differentiation. This paper aims to look rather at patterns change over time space how past hunter-gatherer cemeteries were used from Late Mesolithic Early Bronze Age (~8600–3500 cal BP) Cis-Baikal region Easter...