Since the 1920s, a visit to the dentist involving X-rays meant being draped with a lead vest or apron to shield against the harmful effects of radiation (patient and staff). New safety guidelines from ...
Fire and the body : fire and the people / Tim Thompson -- Flesh, fire, and funerary remains from the Neolithic site of La Varde, Guernsey : investigations past and present / Jenny Cataroche and ...
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Oldest cremation pyre found in Africa rewrites our understanding of hunter-gatherer ritual behavior
How humans deal with death and the rituals we build around it are a crucial part of our identity. Burial practices may stretch back hundreds of thousands of years, emerging soon after our ancestors ...
Electric furnaces, municipal salaries and shifting caste boundaries are reshaping cremation work in the city, though ...
Archaeologists discovered possibly the oldest known cremation pyre in Africa, clarifying the issues of cultural complexity of early man and creating new approaches to funeral rituals in ancient ...
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