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We describe artificial openings in crania of the Early Iron Age nomads of the Lower Volga region, owned by the Moscow State University Institute and Museum of Anthropology. Such openings were found on two male specimens of the... more
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      Archaeology, Eurasian Nomads, Arheology, Early Iron Age
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      Anthropology, Trepanation, Antropologia, Trepanacja
Rebeca Esnaola Bermejo: La exposición “La vida impresa en los huesos. Paleopatología en Navarra”, presentada en el Museo de Navarra entre septiembre de 2019 y febrero de 2020, se asienta en la tradición y prestigio de la arqueología en... more
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      Paleopathology, Prehistory, Trepanation
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      Bioarchaeology, Paleopathology, Chinese archaeology, Early China
Grotta Patrizi (Cerveteri, Roma, Lazio) discovered by Patrizi in 1933 is a vast karst network. Excavation by Radmilli revealed an individual burial reliably attributed to the Ceramica a Linee Incise group that contributed to the... more
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      Archaeology, Surgery, Funerary Archaeology, Neolithic Archaeology
La trepanación es considerada una de las técnicas quirúrgicas más antiguas en el mundo, encontrando la evidencia más temprana en el Mesolítico. En la Península Ibérica han sido documentadas más de 100 evidencias de esta práctica en la... more
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      Bioarchaeology, Paleopathology, Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology), Prehistory
This chapter explores the role of skull-collecting, healing, and anthropology in the transnational Indigenous identity formation of Julio César Tello (1880-1947), a Peruvian archaeologist from the predominantly Indigenous region of... more
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      Ethnohistory, Andean Archaeology, Indigenous Archaeololgy, Indigenous Knowledge
Glockenbecherkultur, Holzeinbau, Holzabdeckung, Körpergrab, Trepanation?, taphonomische Vorgänge
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      Neolithic Archaeology, Bell Beakers (Archaeology), Death and Burial (Archaeology), Late Neolithic
Link al texto completo: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332195159_Redescubrimiento_del_sitio_arqueologico _de_la_momia_que_inspiro_a_Gauguin_y_Munch Resumen: En artículos anteriores se mostró la gran influencia de una momia... more
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      Art History, Modern Art, History of Art, Chachapoyas
Aiming to study the human skulls and their bones that showed surgical or cult practices, during the Neolithic era, a survey of known Portuguese cases was carried out, proceeding to an anthropological study and its con‑ textual framework,... more
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      Bioarchaeology, Paleopathology, Neolithic Archaeology, Osteoarchaeology
Excavations at Collingbourne Ducis revealed almost the full extent of a late 5th-7th century cemetery, first recorded in 1974, providing one of the largest samples of burial remains from Anglo-Saxon Wiltshire. Eighty-two inhumation graves... more
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      Anglo-Saxon Studies, Osteology, Osteoarchaeology, Death and Burial (Archaeology)
Symbolic trepanation is an invasive procedure, performed on living individuals, without creating a direct connection between the endocranial space and the outer world. Most cases of symbolic trepanation come from the archaeological... more
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      Paleoanthropology, Medieval Archaeology, Osteoarchaeology, Trephination
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      Trepanation, Histoire et archéologie du haut Moyen-âge
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      Neolithic Archaeology, Trepanation, Peruvian Archaeology
Solo Exhibition at Henrique Faria Fine Art, NYC, February and March 2018
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      Latin American Art, Conceptual Art, Trepanation, Peruvian Archaeology
Cranial trepanation is the oldest neurosurgical operation and its roots date back to prehistory. For many centuries, religion and mysticism were strongly linked to the cause of diseases, and trepanation was associated with superstitions... more
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      Ancient History, Neurosurgery, Greece, Humans
A remarkable number of human skulls are known throughout Europe, showing changes of anthropic nature (among them the practice of trepanation). There are also the use of other types of skull bones, as a certain type of artifacts. The... more
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      Prehistoric Archaeology, Neolithic Archaeology, Neolithic & Chalcolithic Archaeology, Neolithic Europe
Cranial manipulation from the neolithic necropolis of Feteira Cave - Portugal. Neolithic necropolis in a karstic context, coming from the Portuguese Extremadura region, not far from the coast, from where it was possible to recover cranial... more
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      Neolithic Archaeology, Neolithic & Chalcolithic Archaeology, Religion and ritual in prehistory, Iberian Prehistory (Archaeology)
Curgical evidences in archaeological contetxs. Aiming to study the human skulls and their bones that showed surgical or cult practices, during the Neolithic era, a survey of known Portuguese cases was carried out, proceeding to an... more
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      Prehistoric Archaeology, Neolithic Archaeology, Neolithic & Chalcolithic Archaeology, Religion and ritual in prehistory
Presentation of the trepaned skulls from the collections of the National Archaeological Museum - Lisbon, Portugal The skulls with evidences of trepanation have aroused the interest of Archeology and Anthropology since the century. XIX,... more
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      Neolithic Archaeology, Neolithic & Chalcolithic Archaeology, National Museums, Ritual (Anthropology)