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Published: 2026-02-17

Research Articles

Detailed Recovery Methods Show the Complexity of Ancient Mortuary Practices in Later Stone Age Hunter-Gatherers of Southern-Central Africa

Jessica I. Cerezo-Román, Elizabeth A. Sawchuk, Alex Bertacchi, Annalys Hanson, Megan Walsh, E. Grace Veatch, Potiphar Kaliba, Jessica C. Thompson

201–228

Abstract

This article examines mortuary practices by terminal Pleistocene and Holocene hunter-gatherers from Malawi and eastern Zambia in...

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Ancient Burials at Upward Sun River, Central Alaska

Ben A. Potter, Joel D. Irish, Joshua D. Reuther

229–243

Abstract

In the late summer about 11,500 years ago, probably in the space of a few weeks, three young Paleoindian children died and were buried in a...

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Funerary Veneration of Violated People in the Context of Costly Signaling

Christopher W. Schmidt

244–257

Abstract

During the Middle and Late Archaic periods in Indiana, occasional violent interactions led to people being killed and their heads and/or...

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Mortuary Practices and the Importance of Rock-Shelters during the Early and Middle Holocene in the Southern Maya Mountains

Emily Moes, Lexi O'Donnell, Nadia C. Neff, Jessica I. Cerezo-Román, Willa R. Trask, Douglas J. Kennett, Keith M. Prufer

258–277

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Research at two rock-shelters in the Maya Mountains of southern Belize, Mayahak Cab Pek and Saki Tzul, documents their persistent use as...

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