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Grief and Burial in the American Southwest: The Role of Evolutionary Theory in the Interpretation of Mortuary Remains
2001
American Antiquity
Evolutionary theory, in consort with Marxism and processualism, provides new insights into the interpretation of grave-good variation. Processual interpretations of burial sites in the American Southwest cite age, sex, or social rank as the main determinants of burial-good variation. Marxist theorists suggest that mortuary ritual mediates social tension between an egalitarian mindset and an existing social inequality. Evolutionary theory provides a supplementary explanatory framework. Recent
doi:10.2307/2694183
pmid:20043376
fatcat:b6bcx27ygnfqro5z3bp3hlundi