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Port Mortuary
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Port MortuaryPort Mortuary

Port Mortuary, the title of Patricia Cornwell's 18th Scarpetta novel, is literally a port for the dead. In this fast-paced story, a treacherous path from Scarpetta's past merges with the high tech highway she now finds herself on. We travel back to the beginning of her professional career, when she enlisted in the Air Force to pay off her medical school debt and found herself ensnared in a gruesome case of what seemed to be vicious, racially motivated hate crimes against two Americans in South Africa. 
 
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Tags: herself, Mortuary, Scarpetta, ensnared, gruesome
Merovingian Mortuary Archaeology and the Making of the Early Middle Ages
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Merovingian Mortuary Archaeology and the Making of the Early Middle AgesMerovingian Mortuary Archaeology and the Making of the Early Middle Ages

Clothing, jewelry, animal remains, ceramics, coins, and weaponry are among the artifacts that have been discovered in graves in Gaul dating from the fifth to eighth century. Those who have unearthed them, from the middle ages to the present, have speculated widely on their meaning. This authoritative book makes a major contribution to the study of death and burial in late antique and early medieval society with its long overdue systematic discussion of this mortuary evidence.
 
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Tags: antique, early, medieval, society, burial, Middle, Merovingian, Making, Early, Mortuary
Port Mortuary
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Port Mortuary by Patricia Cornwell

Kay Scarpetta has been training at the Dover Port Mortuary, mastering the art of 'virtual autopsy' - a groundbreaking procedure that could soon revolutionise forensic science. And it is not too long before these new skills urgently need to be put into practice. A young man drops dead, apparently from a heart condition, eerily close to Scarpetta's home. But when his body is examined the next morning, there are stunning indications that he may have been alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and locked inside the cooler.

 
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Tags: Mortuary, Scarpetta, inside, eerily, close
Death and Memory in Early Medieval Britain
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Death and Memory in Early Medieval BritainDeath and Memory in Early Medieval BritainHow were the dead remembered in early medieval Britain? Originally published in 2006, this innovative study demonstrates how perceptions of the past and the dead, and hence social identities, were constructed through mortuary practices and commemoration between c. 400–1100 AD. Drawing on archaeological evidence from across Britain, including archaeological discoveries, Howard Williams presents a fresh interpretation of the significance of portable artefacts, the body, structures, monuments and landscapes in early medieval mortuary practices.


 
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Tags: Britain, practices, commemoration, mortuary, through, medieval, Death, archaeological