This final chapter situates Classic Maya burials within the greater landscape of Maya
communities and kingdoms. As is true of most lineage-organized societies, ancestors …

In the last 10,000 years, 100 billion people have died (Davies 1994: 24). The majority of
them have passed into oblivion and only a small part is actually present in the …

In this article, the authors examine radiocarbon, histo-taphonomic, and contextual evidence
for the deliberate curation, manipulation, and redeposition of human bone in British Bronze …

This paper sets out the results of radiocarbon, histological, and contextual analysis of human
remains from non-mortuary contexts in Middle and Late Bronze Age Britain. In the latter …

This research explores the relationship between mortuary practice and sociopolitical change
among a collection of communities incorporated into the Inca Empire. I conducted this work …

We explore the inhumation (and occasional exhumation) of the dead within the framework of
ritual practice at El Kinel, Guatemala. Over the course of this chapter, we argue that mortuary …

Materializing Ritual Practices explores the deep history of ritual practice in Mexico and
Central America and the ways interdisciplinary research can be coordinated to illuminate …

The ancient Maya regarded dry caves, crevices, rockshelters, and cenotes as sacred spaces
and accesses to the earthen womb of the cosmos, thresholds through which the living …

Inspired by life course and osteobiography approaches, this article explores the life and
death of an individual associated with the lakam title (“banner” in Colonial Yukatek Maya; …

Presenting the results of six years of archaeological survey and excavation in and around
the Maya kingdom of El Zotz, An Inconstant Landscape paints a complex picture of a …