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Reconstructing the social organization and broader culture and lifeways of a past people through the study of their mortuary remains is by nature an exercise in contextual analysis. The distributions of artifact classes, tomb forms, mortuary treatments, and skeletal traits of various kinds among different sets of individuals can give insight into socially defined categories of persons, their roles, modes of recruitment into social categories, divisions of labor, the degree of social hierarchy, and so on.
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Carr, C., Goldstein, B.J., Case, D.T. (2008). Contextualizing Preanalyses of the Ohio Hopewell Mortuary Data, I: Age, Sex, Burial-Deposit, and Intraburial Artifact Count Distributions. In: The Scioto Hopewell and Their Neighbors. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-77387-2_12
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