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    Human remains and mass violence : methodological approaches / Jean-Marc Dreyfus & Élisbeth Anstett.

    | Date: 2015
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    Blood red roses : the archaeology of a mass grave from the Battle of Towton AD 1461 / edited by Veronica Fiorato, Anthea Boylston and Christopher Knüsel ; foreword by Robert Hardy ; contributions by Andrew Boardman [and others] ; with further contributions by Christopher Cumberpatch [and others].

    | Date: [2000], ©2000
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    Victims of Ireland's great famine : the bioarchaeology of mass burials at Kilkenny Union Workhouse / Jonny Geber ; Foreword by Clark Spencer Larsen.

    Geber, Jonny | Date: [2015]
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    M0001929: Reproduction of an illustration captioned "The plague in Marseilles in 1720. The scene shows convicts disposing of the dead by throwing the bodies into the bastions of the sea wall

    | Date: May 1931 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/18/15
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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    Destruction and human remains : disposal and concealment in genocide and mass violence / edited by Elisabeth Anstett & Jean-Marc Dreyfus.

    | Date: 2014

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