Re-evaluating the State of Mortuary Studies in the Near East: Review of Remembering the Dead by Benjamin Porter & Alexis Boutin (eds)

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  • Mike Brass Institute of Archaeology, University College London

Abstract

A review of Remembering the Dead: Recent Contributions from Bioarchaeology and Mortuary Archaeology by Benjamin Porter & Alexis Boutin (eds) (University Press of Colorado, 2014)

Remembering the Dead: Recent Contributions from Bioarchaeology and Mortuary Archaeology

by Benjamin Porter & Alexis Boutin (eds)

University Press of Colorado, 2014

Author Biography

Mike Brass, Institute of Archaeology, University College London

Ph.D candidate, Institute of Archaeology, University College London

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2015-08-10

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Vol. 1 No. 1 (2015)

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