Building Bridges Between Burial Archaeology and the Archaeology of Death – Where Is the Archaeological Study of the Dead Going

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  • Liv Nilsson Stutz Emory University Department of Anthropology

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Nilsson Stutz, L. (2016) “Building Bridges Between Burial Archaeology and the Archaeology of Death – Where Is the Archaeological Study of the Dead Going”, Current Swedish Archaeology, 26(1), pp. 13–35. doi: 10.37718/CSA.2016.01.

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