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By focusing on how mortuary practices serve as symbols of beliefs and values for the living, the contributors explore how burial of the dead reflects and reinforces the cosmology of specific cultures, the status of living participants in the burial ceremony, ongoing kin relationships, and other aspects of social organization.

Stretching from New England to northern Alabama, the Appalachian mountain chain forms not only a major geographical feature of the eastern United States but was also the setting for thousands of years of Native American cultural development. Like the more recent inhabitants of these mountains, the ancient highlanders developed vibrant and diverse traditions, and these are accessible now only through archaeological research.This book is the fir...

Curation is rarely the first topic raised in an archaeological seminar or addressed in a fieldwork design. And, the authors point out, it is too rarely discussed at all. But the current crisis in repository space has increased awareness that the long-term conservation and preservation of the material remains and field notes of an archaeological project are as important as the finds themselves. Sullivan and Childs, two experienced archaeologist...