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Acknowledgments |
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Human remains: the archaeology of death or the archaeology of life? |
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3 | (2) |
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5 | (1) |
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6 | (1) |
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7 | (4) |
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11 | (6) |
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17 | (3) |
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20 | (1) |
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From Now to Then: Ethnoarchaeology and Analogy |
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21 | (24) |
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The social anthropology of death |
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21 | (6) |
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Cross-cultural generalizations and the New Archaeology's search for middle range theory |
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27 | (5) |
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Funerary practices: agency, power and ideology |
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32 | (2) |
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Ethnoarchaeology and the reconsideration of analogy |
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34 | (2) |
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Tandroy funerary practices and the rise of monumentality |
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36 | (4) |
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The ethnoarchaeology of us: funerary practices in Britain and the US |
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40 | (4) |
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44 | (1) |
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45 | (27) |
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Distancing death in recent and contemporary Britain |
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47 | (2) |
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49 | (3) |
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52 | (2) |
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Laying out and adorning the body |
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54 | (1) |
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The absent and anonymous body |
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55 | (1) |
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56 | (1) |
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Pharaohs of the New Kingdom and the corpse as cosmos |
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56 | (3) |
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Saints' bones: human relics as magical substance |
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59 | (2) |
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The frozen tombs of Pazyrk: the body's skin as sacred boundary |
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61 | (6) |
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Bog bodies: human sacrifices or social outcasts? |
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67 | (4) |
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71 | (1) |
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72 | (23) |
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Social evolutionary theory |
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72 | (1) |
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Mortuary variability and social organization |
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73 | (2) |
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New Archaeology case studies of status |
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75 | (3) |
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78 | (2) |
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80 | (3) |
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Rethinking grave goods and status |
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83 | (3) |
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Relationships between rank and power |
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86 | (1) |
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Moundville: funerary rituals of a prehistoric `chiefdom' |
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87 | (7) |
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94 | (1) |
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95 | (29) |
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The osteological identification of sex |
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95 | (1) |
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Feminist theory and the rise of a `gendered' archaeology |
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96 | (5) |
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Gender identity and contextual meanings |
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101 | (1) |
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Little perishers: the archaeology of children |
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102 | (2) |
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Women, men and children in Danish prehistory |
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104 | (5) |
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Dress, gender and kinship |
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109 | (1) |
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Kinship and the New Archaeology |
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110 | (4) |
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Stratigraphic sequences and kinship |
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114 | (2) |
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Integrating funerary and biological approaches |
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116 | (8) |
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124 | (18) |
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Separating the dead from the living |
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124 | (7) |
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Sacred places of the dead |
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131 | (1) |
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132 | (4) |
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Descent groups and territoriality |
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136 | (3) |
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139 | (2) |
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141 | (1) |
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The Human Experience of Death |
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142 | (29) |
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142 | (3) |
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Funerary rites and the origins of humanity |
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145 | (2) |
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Burials of the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic |
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147 | (6) |
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The Lower Palaeolithic: formal disposal and cannibalism? |
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153 | (3) |
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The origins of monumentality |
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156 | (1) |
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The construction of ancestorhood |
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157 | (4) |
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From plastered skulls to figurines: the mother-goddess myth rejected |
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161 | (3) |
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The quest for immortality |
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164 | (4) |
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The rise of the world religions |
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168 | (2) |
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The rise of secular beliefs |
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170 | (1) |
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171 | (22) |
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Native Americans and archaeologists |
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173 | (3) |
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Aboriginals and atrocities in Australia |
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176 | (1) |
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The politics of bones around the world |
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177 | (3) |
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Legal requirements and problem cases in Britain |
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180 | (3) |
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Archaeology and the public in Britain |
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183 | (2) |
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Codes of ethics for the treatment of human remains |
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185 | (3) |
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Plundering and pillaging the dead-the problem of looting |
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188 | (2) |
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The archaeology of twentieth-century atrocities |
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190 | (1) |
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191 | (2) |
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Epilogue: Death and Memory |
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193 | (5) |
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194 | (1) |
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Architecture, death and monuments |
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195 | (2) |
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197 | (1) |
APPENDIX EXCAVATING HUMAN REMAINS |
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198 | (7) |
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198 | (1) |
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199 | (2) |
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201 | (1) |
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202 | (1) |
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Lifting and temporary storage |
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202 | (2) |
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204 | (1) |
Notes |
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205 | (12) |
Bibliography |
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217 | (27) |
Index |
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