Papers from a symposium held by the Society for American Archaeology in 1991 provide an historical review of the archaeology of death from its foundation in social theory through its modern criticisms
Like plants that share the same name but vary according to their environments, "bioarchaeology" has acquired various definitions since its origins in the 1970s. While some prefer to link it to osteoar
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