An Ancient Indian Custom: Sati by Yalçın KAYALI

“…Satī was a religious funeral practice among Hindus in which a widowed woman has immolated herself on her husband’s funeral pyre. In Hindu beliefs there is no other duty but falling into the funeral pyre for all women, when the husband dies.Existance of the practice sat ã relies on before Gupta Empire, in other words,  approximately 400 AD. …”
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These boots are made for burnin': Inferring the position of the corpse and the presence of leather footwears during cremation through isotope (δ13C, δ18O) and infrared (FTIR) analy... by Kevin Salesse, Elisavet Stamataki, Ioannis Kontopoulos, Georges Verly, Rica Annaert, Mathieu Boudin, Giacomo Capuzzo, Philippe Claeys, Sarah Dalle, Marta Hlad, Guy de Mulder, Charlotte Sabaux, Amanda Sengeløv, Barbara Veselka, Eugène Warmenbol, Martine Vercauteren, Christophe Snoeck

“…The limiting information concerning these behavioral patterns obtained from the pyre remains and/or cremation deposits prevents the reconstruction of the handling of the corpse during the burning process. …”
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Nonsense suppression in archaea by Bhattacharya, Arpita, Mandal, Debabrata, Koehrer, Caroline, Rajbhandary, Uttam L

“…Additionally, transformation of a ΔpyrE2 H. volcanii strain with plasmids carrying the genes for a pyrE2 amber mutant and the serine amber suppressor tRNA yielded transformants that grow on agar plates lacking uracil. …”
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Spring molybdenum enrichment in scallop shells: a potential tracer of diatom productivity in temperate coastal environments (Brittany, NW France) by A. Barats, D. Amouroux, C. Pécheyran, L. Chauvaud, J. Thébault, O. F. X. Donard

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More than urns: A multi-method pipeline for analyzing cremation burials by Lukas Waltenberger, Marjolein D. Bosch, Michaela Fritzl, André Gahleitner, Christoph Kurzmann, Maximilian Piniel, Roderick B. Salisbury, Ladislav Strnad, Hannah Skerjanz, Domnika Verdianu, Christophe Snoeck, Fabian Kanz, Katharina Rebay-Salisbury

“…Sediment chemistry suggests that pyre remains were deposited around the urns during burial. …”
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Pots, Females and Food by Stig Welinder

“…Independent of these qualities, the pots had been used as bone-containers in the male graves, while in the female graves they had been placed on the pyre, possibly containing food, and afterwards deposited as sherds. …”
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Endogenous CRISPR/Cas systems for genome engineering in the acetogens Acetobacterium woodii and Clostridium autoethanogenum by Margaux Poulalier-Delavelle, Jonathan P. Baker, James Millard, Klaus Winzer, Nigel P. Minton

“…The devised workflow was subsequently applied to the Type I-B CRISPR/Cas system of Clostridium autoethanogenum, enabling the generation of a 561 bp in-frame deletion of pyrE with 100% editing efficiency. This is the first report of genome engineering of both A. woodii and C. autoethanogenum using their endogenous CRISPR/Cas systems.…”
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Heybridge: A late Iron Age and Roman settlement. Excavations at Elms Farm 1993-5. Volume 2 by Mark Atkinson, Stephen J. Preston

“…To the north of the settlement area were a number of burials, pyre sites and pyre debris dumps. Early Roman cremations were added to this area slightly later. …”
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Identification of Genes Relevant to Symbiosis and Competitiveness in Sinorhizobium meliloti Using Signature-Tagged Mutants by Nataliya Pobigaylo, Silke Szymczak, Tim W. Nattkemper, Anke Becker

“…Moreover, additional symbiotic defects were observed for mutants in several novel genes such as infection deficiency phenotypes (ilvI and ilvD2 mutants) or delayed nodulation (pyrE, metA, thiC, thiO, and thiD mutants).…”
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Chromosomal engineering of inducible isopropanol- butanol-ethanol production in Clostridium acetobutylicum by Bunmi B. Omorotionmwan, Hengzheng Wang, Jonathan P. Baker, Krzysztof Gizynski, Minyeong Yoo, Cynthia Akaluka, Ying Zhang, Nigel P. Minton, Nigel P. Minton

“…Accordingly, we have created multiply marked auxotrophic strains of Clostridium acetobutylicum that provide distinct loci (pyrE, argH, purD, pheA) at which heterologous genes can be rapidly integrated using allele-coupled exchange (ACE). …”
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A universal mariner transposon system for forward genetic studies in the genus Clostridium. by Ying Zhang, Alexander Grosse-Honebrink, Nigel P Minton

“…Here we have shown that the host range of the transposon is easily extended through the rapid chromosomal insertion of the tcdR gene at the pyrE locus of the intended clostridial target using Allele-Coupled Exchange (ACE). …”
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Gone up in Smoke: (Un)making the Landscape in Graham Swift’s Wish You Were Here by Pascale Tollance

“…Waterland gives the magical land of the Fens ‘the force of a character’ in Swift’s own words; Wish You Were Here describes a land which, once it has been turned into a gigantic pyre, abandoned and sold, runs the risk of becoming a neutral expanse of space, devoid of all presence. …”
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Female foeticide: a social menace by Farooqui, Jamil

“…They are given such an ideal role as to live at the mercy of the husband and die at his pyre. The reason is that in the social fibre of many societies males are given a privileged position because they are bread-winners, feed the family, and continue the name of the family. …”
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Compositional and Morphological Investigations of Roman Glass from Cremation Deposits at Birdoswald Fort on Hadrian’s Wall, UK by Francesca Gherardi

“…Based on the chemical composition of the bulk of the samples, a model of high temperature viscosity of glass was applied in order to assess the cremation temperature in the pyre, providing relevant information about funerary rituals and cremation technology in Roman Britain.…”
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Osadnictwo obcoplemienne i obcoetniczne w okolicach Opatowa i Sandomierza we wcześniejszym średniowieczu w świetle źródeł archeologicznych i toponomastycznych by Marek Florek

“…The establishment of a gord in Zawichost Podgórze before the end of the 9th century coupled with the emergence of a local cluster of pyre kurgan grave fields may be evidence of the arrival of new settlers from an area east of the Vistula. …”
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Multilocus sequence typing, biochemical and antibiotic resistance characterizations reveal diversity of North American strains of the honey bee pathogen Paenibacillus larvae. by Sasiprapa Krongdang, Jay D Evans, Jeffery S Pettis, Panuwan Chantawannakul

“…For MLST, seven housekeeping gene loci, ilvD (dihydroxy-acid dyhydrogenase), tri (triosephosphate isomerase), purH (phospharibosyl-aminoimidazolecarboxamide), recF (DNA replication and repair protein), pyrE (orotate phosphoribosyltransferase), sucC (succinyl coenzyme A synthetase β subunit) and glpF (glycerol uptake facilitator protein) were studied and applied for primer designs. …”
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Almgren 236 Fibulae from Poiana by Daniel Spânu

“…One fibula was discovered in the funeral pyre of the “Movila Hârtop” tumulus in Poiana (fig. 2/2). …”
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Improving the genetic system for Halorubrum lacusprofundi to allow in-frame deletions by L. Johanna Gebhard, Iain G. Duggin, Susanne Erdmann

“…Here, we report the successful generation of uracil auxotrophic (pyrE2) mutants of two strains of Hrr. lacusprofundi. …”
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Educating Croesus: talking and learning in Herodotus' Lydian logos by Pelling, C

“…Two themes, the elusiveness of wisdom and the distortion of speech, are traced through three important scenes of Herodotus' Lydian logos, the meeting of Solon and Croesus (1.29–33), the scene where Cyrus places Croesus on the pyre (1.86–90), and the advice of Croesus to Cyrus to cross the river and fight the Massagetae in their own territory (1.207). …”

In regards to the Human Remains Unearthed from Akyurt Kalaba Tumulus by Ali Metin Büyükkarakaya

“…The examination of the remains of cremation (i.e. discolorations and changes in the shape of the bones) has indicated that the corpses of the dead were cremated while flesh remained on the bones, and the pyre fire in the cremation areas reached temperatures above 700-900°C. …”
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