Burial rites in Arctic Eurasia: a search for understanding Mid-Upper Paleolithic human skeletal bits and pieces in Moravia
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68081758%3A_____%2F23%3A00579191" target="_blank" >RIV/68081758:_____/23:00579191 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://puvodni.mzm.cz/Anthropologie/article.php?ID=2403" target="_blank" >http://puvodni.mzm.cz/Anthropologie/article.php?ID=2403</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.26720/anthro.23.11.07.2" target="_blank" >10.26720/anthro.23.11.07.2</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Burial rites in Arctic Eurasia: a search for understanding Mid-Upper Paleolithic human skeletal bits and pieces in Moravia
Original language description
The paper addresses the understanding of the complexity in intentional and random manipulation with deceased human bodies in the Mid-Upper Paleolithic in Eurasia. A series of single or multiple anatomic human modern burials at open air-sites, in caves or under rock shelters have been documented. Some of them are decorated and covered by extra-large sized mammal bones for protection. Beside these ritually buried individuals, isolated human cranial and postcranial fragments are scattered through the cultural and other depositional layers, many of them being identified during the post-excavation processing of faunal remains (e.g. Dolní Věstonice I, II and Pavlov I sites in the Czech Republic). These bits and pieces often lack direct evidence of predator or human manipulation (except intentionally perforated human teeth), which raises the question of a differential mortuary practice employed by our ancestors and/or the presence of specific depositional and post-depositional taphonomic conditions in the preservation of human remains. The paper addresses ethnoarcheological observations in different types of treatment of deceased human bodies among recent Arctic and sub- Arctic hunter-gatherers and reindeer herders in Eurasia with a special emphasis on the burial rites among the Nenets from northwestern Siberia. The work aims at the author's own social and economic scope, in which inappropriate or partial manipulation with the deceased human body presents a disputable, unethical and even illegal act.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60102 - Archaeology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA20-26094S" target="_blank" >GA20-26094S: Hunters at a camp: Reconstruction of spatial behaviour at Moravian Gravettian sites.</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Anthropologie
ISSN
0323-1119
e-ISSN
2570-9127
Volume of the periodical
61
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
315-326
UT code for WoS article
001156619200006
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85178393710