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    Behavioral Variability in Mortuary Deposition: A Modern Material Culture Study

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    Author
    LaMotta, Vincent M.
    Issue Date
    2001
    Keywords
    Mortuary archaeology
    Anthropology of death & burial
    Archaeological method & theory
    Behavioral archaeology
    Modern material culture studies
    
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    Arizona Anthropologist #14: pp.53-80, ©2001 Association of Student Anthropologists, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
    Publisher
    University of Arizona, Department of Anthropology
    Journal
    Arizona Anthropologist
    Description
    1999 Dozier Award Winner
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10150/110099
    Abstract
    This paper examines critically several key assumptions that have guided many archaeological interpretations of prehistoric mortuary assemblages. It is argued that more sophisticated models of mortuary deposition need to be incorporated into research that attempts to reconstruct community structure and other sociological variables from variation in grave assemblages. To illustrate this point, and to begin to build such models, a study of artifacts deposited in mortuary contexts was conducted by the author in a major urban center in Arizona in 1996. Several different behavioral pathways through which objects enter mortuary contexts are identified in this study, and some general material correlates for each are specified. This study also provides a vehicle for exploring preliminarily how, and to what extent, various forms of mortuary depostion are related to the social identities of the deceased. Finally, a synthetic model is developed which seeks to explain variation in mortuary deposition in terms of behavioral interactions between the living, on the one hand, and the deceased and various classes of material culture, on the other. It is hoped that the general models and material correlates developed through this study can be elaborated by prehistorians to bolster inferences drawn from specific mortuary populations and to explore previously-uncharted realms of mortuary behavior in the past.
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    Language
    en_US
    ISSN
    1062-1601
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