From uterus to jar: The significance of an infant pot burial from Melora Saddle, an early nineteenth-century African farmer site on the Waterberg Plateau

Southern African Humanities

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 213-238

  Boeyens, Jan ^a   Van Der Ryst, Maria ^a   Coetzee, Francois ^a   Steyn, Maryna ^b   Loots, Marius ^b  

^a UNISA ^*  (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Fertility; Foetus; Iron Age; Miscarriage; Neonate; Perinatal; Pollution; Pot burial; Ritual impurity; Symbolisation; Uterus; Waterberg

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955012676     PISSN: 16815564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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