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35mm slide: 20500
World Region
Africa
Country
Madagascar
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Closing the family tomb after a famadihana (turning of the bones). Many Malagasy groups still use megalithic communal tombs and standing stones, similar to the chambered tombs of prehistoric Western Europe. (ethnoarchaeology) (Original teaching slide code: WG-19)

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16860
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"Closing the family tomb after a famadihana (turning of the bones). Many Malagasy groups still use megalithic communal tombs and standing stones, similar to the chambered tombs of prehistoric Western Europe. (ethnoarchaeology) (Original teaching slide code: WG-19)". In the digital collection UM Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/anthro1ic/x-16860/16860. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. March 28, 2024.
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