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The Oxford Illustrated History of Prehistoric Europe by Barry Cunliffe (Paperback - 18 Jan 2001)

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Excerpt - page 258: " ... cord-impressed pottery and tumuli were adopted and integrated into the fabric of society. Burial monuments still played a prominent role in the organization of the landscape. This ... "

The Archaeology of Death and Burial by Michael Parker Pearson (Paperback - 2 Jul 2003)

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Excerpt - page 74: "Any society in which burials included both subordinate and superordinate social personae could be interpreted as a ranked society. In considering such an interpretation, the archaeologist might ... "

Prehistoric Britain (Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology) by Joshua Pollard (Paperback - 6 Jun 2008)

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Excerpt - page 179: " ... burial traditions of the Early Neolithic to the single grave burial of the Early Bronze Age has been tradi- tionally taken to signify a fundamental change in society ... "

The Archaeology Coursebook: An Introduction to Themes, Sites, Methods and Skills by Jim Grant, Sam Gorin, and Neil Fleming (Paperback - 24 Jun 2008)

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Excerpt - page 230: "being the result of a fairly egalitarian society. Burials under the houses and art have been interpreted as suggestive of a mother goddess cult although"

The American Way of Death Revisited by Jessica Mitford (Paperback - 2 Nov 2000)

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Reading the Past: Current Approaches to Interpretation in Archaeology by Ian Hodder and Scott Hutson (Paperback - 4 Dec 2003)

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What to Do When Someone Dies: From Funeral Planning to Probate and Finance ("Which?" Essential Guides): From Funeral Planning to Probate and ... Essential Guides) ("Which?" Essential Guides) by Paul Harris (Paperback - 30 Sep 2006)

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Excerpt - page 109: " ... burial society may agree to carry out the funeral of a Jew who was not a member of a synagogue and had not been subscribing to any burial society ... "

Ancient Mesopotamia (Case Studies in Early Societies) by Susan Pollock (Paperback - 20 May 1999)

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Excerpt - page 197: "society's array of burial treatments was related in a direct manner to its sociopolitical organization (Saxe 1970; Binford 1971). More recently, many archaeologists have ... "

Prehistoric Europe: Theory and Practice (Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology) by Andrew Jones (Paperback - 17 Oct 2008)

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Excerpt - page 81: " ... Kjeld Jensen, C., and K. Heilund Nielsen, eds. 1997 Burial and Society. The Chrono- logical and Social Analysis of Archaeological Burial Data. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press"

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The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles: Their Nature and Legacy by Ronald Hutton (Paperback - 28 Oct 1993)

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Excerpt - page 235: " ... Did Roman Britain have professionals who arranged burials, as in modern society? Common sense suggests that a mixture of the first four factors operated ... "

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Death, Mourning, and Burial: A Cross-Cultural Reader (The Human Lifecycle: CrossCultural Readings) by Antonius C. G. M. Robben (Paperback - 29 Nov 2004)

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Excerpt - page 211: " ... enables us therefore to understand at the same time why in a given society double burial rites are practised, and why in certain cases they are not. Let ... temporary exclusion of the individual from human society. This exclusion effects his passage from the visible society of the living into 211"

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Celebrations of Death: The Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual by Peter Metcalf and Richard Huntington (Paperback - 25 Oct 1991)

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Excerpt - Back Matter: "Burial and Ancient Society: The Rise of the Greek City-State. Cam- bridge: Cambridge University Press. Neale, R. 1973. The Art of Dying. New York: Harper ... "

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