Under the influence of phenomenological approaches, a semiotic perspective on the body is
being replaced in archaeology by analysis of the production and experience of lived bodies …

This review provides a road map through current trends and issues in archaeological
studies of memory. Many scholars continue to draw on Halbwachs for collective memory …

The archaeological identification of individuals has been an important component of both
processual attempts to characterize social organization by the treatment of individuals in …

Do Funerals Matter? is a creative interweaving of historical, sociocultural, and research-
based perspectives on death rituals, drawing from myriad sources to create a picture of what …

Mounds, Memory, and Contested Mississippian History — University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Empirical studies of bone maintenance in archaeological populations show that patterns of
bone loss do not constitute predictable consequences of aging, either on age or sex. Our …

Gender is only one of many axes of identity that may be involved in the construction of
personhood. Sexed and/or gendered bodies are always simultaneously combined …

Theoretical developments in sociocultural anthropology have transformed the study of
kinship. Here, we review these theoretical developments, consider their influence on …

In the first centuries of the Common Era, an eclectic collection of plain and embellished
underground and aboveground tombs filled the cemeteries of the Roman province of Syria …

This article examines the relationship between social boundaries, territoriality and ancestor
veneration during the Late Intermediate Period (1000–1450 AD) in the Rapayán Valley of …