“Handsome Death”: The Taking, Veneration, and Consumption of Human Remains in the Insular Caribbean and Greater Amazonia

Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 547-574

  Petersen, James B ^a   Crock, John G ^a  

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Author keywords

American Archaeology; Ancestor Worship; European Contact; Human Remains; Tropical Lowland

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922843088     PISSN: 15682722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-48303-0_21     Document Type: Chapter

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