The Formation of Mortuary Deposits: Implications for Understanding Mortuary Behavior of Past Populations

Social Bioarchaeology

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 68-106

  Weiss Krejci, Estella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Complex nature of mortuary deposits data from Maya site of Tikal; Formation processes of mortuary deposits; Human bones from general excavations miscellaneous bones; Human remains, representative samples of population theory of mortuary archaeology; Meaningful frame of reference in mortuary analysis formation processes of mortuary deposits; Mortuary deposit formation, implications understanding mortuary behavior of past populations; Ngaju Dayak of Borneo, temporarily stored relative for final funerary deposition; Problematical Deposit 22, in Tikal's North Acropolis burial place of Tikal kings; Rethinking formation processes of mortuary deposits at Tikal; Temporary deposition (Process C) stage in program of mortuary treatment and exhumation

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EID: 84887547130     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444390537.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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