The first objective of this study is to examine temporal patterns in ancient dog burials in the Lake Baikal region of Eastern Siberia. The second objective is to determine if the practice of dog burial here can be correlated with patterns in human subsistence practices, in particular a reliance on terrestrial mammals. Direct radiocarbon dating of a suite of the region's dog remains indicates th...

Human burials of the Linear Pottery culture in Poland are not common. The recent discovery Modlniczka first – and thus far only LBK cemetery was therefore a significant one. Presently, there 17 other known sites with burials. Thirteen south-eastern Poland, four Kuyavia, one Odra River valley. In comparison burial Central Western Europe, graves do provide many clues about funerary customs this c...

Pleistocene residential sites with multiple contemporaneous human burials are extremely rare in the Americas. We report mitochondrial genomic variation in the first multiple mitochondrial genomes from a single prehistoric population: two infant burials (USR1 and USR2) from a common interment at the Upward Sun River Site in central Alaska dating to ∼11,500 cal B.P. Using a targeted capture metho...

The aim of this paper is to give a bioarchaeological overview of the graves with multiple simultaneous burials in the South-East Estonian Siksälä cemetery (12th– 15th cc). Six inhumation graves with a total of 16 individuals were analysed. The studied multiple burials represent various age and gender combinations. Any relations between skeletal pathologies and grave goods could not be observed....

Extensive rescue excavations preceded the construction of a shopping mall in the satellite settlement of Ménfőcsanak, southwest of the city of Győr in northwestern Hungary. Work directed by Andrea Vaday of the Archaeological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences brought to light graves from a Migration Period cemetery. Many of these burials were disturbed either by contemporaneous or s...

BACKGROUND Safely burying Ebola infected individuals is acknowledged to be important for controlling Ebola epidemics and was a major component of the 2013-2016 West Africa Ebola response. Yet, in order to understand the impact of safe burial programs it is necessary to elucidate the role of unsafe burials in sustaining chains of Ebola transmission and how the risk posed by activities surroundin...

The present paper deals with the primary observations conducted on human skeletal remains excavated at Harappan siteof Farmana. The site (29°02’22”N and 76°18’21”E) in the jurisdiction of Meham block of Rohtak district, Haryana, islocally known as Daksh Kheda. Three cultural phases have been identified; Early Harappan, Mature Harappan and LateHarappan, dating back to 2500 BC. In all 70 burial p...

khanghah gilvan cemetery is located in khalkhal, in the iranian province of ardebil. this cemetery came into light during a highway construction project in khanghah village. until now, three archeological excavations, under the author’s supervision, have been carried out in this cemetery that has resulted in burials from the middle bronze age up to parthian period.   among the excavated burial...

Many thousands of burials have been excavated from across the Roman world, documenting a variety funerary practices and rites. Individual burials, however, sometimes stand out for their atypical characteristics. The authors report discovery cremation burial ancient Sagalassos that differs contemporaneous deposits. In this specific context, cremated human remains were not retrieved but buried in...