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Regional Cults and Ethnic Boundaries in “Southern Hopewell”

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Regional Approaches to Mortuary Analysis

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Mortuary analysis is a tool for examination of the patterns of differentiation within a community. However, a community does not exist in isolation. “The study of social structure and genetic affinities must build upon an understanding of certain population characteristics, such as the size of the prehistoric community, its age-sex profile, and the number of population aggregates within a given region,” (Buikstra 1976:14). Thus, a more complete reconstruction of the social organization of a past society is possible when the sample breadth is increased to include the broader region in which social interactions occur. The study of social organization for an archaeological complex, therefore, can best be addressed through regional analysis.

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Beck, L.A. (1995). Regional Cults and Ethnic Boundaries in “Southern Hopewell”. In: Beck, L.A. (eds) Regional Approaches to Mortuary Analysis. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1310-4_8

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