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There can be little question that the publication of SAA Memoir number 25, Approaches to the Social Dimensions of Mortuary Practices (Brown 1971), represented a major turning point in the way archaeologists view funerary remains. Prior to this time, the analysis of cemeteries tended to be the domain of the “sensitive” (those who sought a transcendental “nearness” to past societies through their dead) and the taxonomist, who sought to build chronologies through the seriation of grave lots. The promise of that (now far off) symposium was not just the potential to “dig up a kinship system” (Binford 1972:8), but the possibility that the unique kinds of evidence present in funerary contexts could provide the basis for a truly anthropological archaeology.
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O’Shea, J.M. (1995). Mortuary Custom in the Bronze Age of Southeastern Hungary. In: Beck, L.A. (eds) Regional Approaches to Mortuary Analysis. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1310-4_6
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