International audienceThe discovery of human skeletons of all ages discarded in garbage dumps alongside animal remains illustrates a practice documented in ancient texts. For reasons that are still poorly understood, certain individuals did not receive the habitual funerary rites, but were abandoned in waste dumps as mundane items of detritus. We have examined the archaeological evidence of this practice and shown how it differs from all other known forms of human burial. The analysis presented here illustrates some of the mechanisms that led to the deliberate denial of a grave to certain individuals. In the cases we studied, the phenomenon appears to be linked to certain very specific social contexts, and to concern only the most marginali...
National audienceThe grouping of the dead in the Manduel well grave seems to correspond to an unusua...
The recent archaeological excavation of modern and contemporary cemeteries has revealed new problems...
International audienceBurials are attested over the totality of the Neandertal area of reparütion, b...
International audienceThe discovery of human skeletons of all ages discarded in garbage dumps alongs...
Excavated in the middle of the 1960’ by M. Sechter, the site of Mougins – Bréguières, in Southeaster...
International audienceFunerary archaeologists excavate and study hundreds or even thousands of skele...
Over thirty simple or multiple burials in storage pits have been discovered during archaelogical sur...
International audienceExcavated in the middle of the 1960’ by M. Sechter, the site of Mougins – Brég...
International audienceThe burials and human deposits presented in this article were discovered at th...
International audienceAfter studying wear, technology, composition of burial assemblages and species...
National audienceThe grouping of the dead in the Manduel well grave seems to correspond to an unusua...
The recent archaeological excavation of modern and contemporary cemeteries has revealed new problems...
International audienceBurials are attested over the totality of the Neandertal area of reparütion, b...
International audienceThe discovery of human skeletons of all ages discarded in garbage dumps alongs...
Excavated in the middle of the 1960’ by M. Sechter, the site of Mougins – Bréguières, in Southeaster...
International audienceFunerary archaeologists excavate and study hundreds or even thousands of skele...
Over thirty simple or multiple burials in storage pits have been discovered during archaelogical sur...
International audienceExcavated in the middle of the 1960’ by M. Sechter, the site of Mougins – Brég...
International audienceThe burials and human deposits presented in this article were discovered at th...
International audienceAfter studying wear, technology, composition of burial assemblages and species...
National audienceThe grouping of the dead in the Manduel well grave seems to correspond to an unusua...
The recent archaeological excavation of modern and contemporary cemeteries has revealed new problems...
International audienceBurials are attested over the totality of the Neandertal area of reparütion, b...