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Children and death in the Bronze and early Iron Age Aegean by Gallou, Chrysanthi

“…Thus, this study aims to make Mycenaean children visible in archaeological research by discussing the treatment of non-adults at death in mainland Greece during the Bronze and Early Iron Age, with focus placed on grave types, grave furnishings, funerary and post-funerary rites and commemoration, and by highlighting the response of local communities to the death of their unfortunate little members, through the documentation of chronological and regional variations in a long perspective.…”
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Burial practices in southwest Britain and northwest France (c.600-1050AD): a comparative analysis by Troadec, Solenn

“…This thesis constitutes the first detailed multiscale comparative analysis of burial practices in southwest Britain (Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Hampshire) and northwest France (Brittany, Loire Atlantique and Normandy) for the period c.600-1050AD, exploring the changes and permanencies in funerary rites in a period of great social, economic and religious transformation, and offering a new understanding of the connections existing in the western Channel throughout the early Middle Ages. …”
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