Mari Tõrv

Mari Tõrv

Archaeologist

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  • Endurance of practices: An archaeologist’s view of the death culture in Estonia thousand of years ago

    14 December 2016

    Studies

    RiTo No. 34, 2016

    The article gives an overview of the death culture of hunter-gatherers in Estonia in 6500–2600 BC. Combining the methods of archaeology, archaeothanatology and osteology, the archaeological burial sites that had been excavated decades ago were analysed. Unlike earlier analyses, the research focused on the dead body or its material remains (here: whole skeletons and separate human bones). Detailed archaethanatological description of them enables to reconstruct what the burial practices were like thousands of years ago. The primary identities of the dead were ascertained with the help of osteology and isotope studies of nutrition.

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