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JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
Volume 26, Issue 2, Pages 283-298Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2006.11.004
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mortuary practices; cemeteries; hunter-gatherer burials; Australia; Murray Valley; time-perspectivism; Aboriginal burials
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One of the difficulties in interpreting hunter-gatherer mortuary practices is that many mortuary theories are derived from sedentary societies and rely upon an excavated record. This paper is an analysis of both historical and archaeological evidence of Aboriginal burial practices in the Murray River region of southeastern Australia. The archaeological data relies primarily upon analysis of burials exposed through erosion rather than systematic excavations which limits the range of burial characteristics that may be recorded and interpreted. The mortuary practices identified are highly patterned but regionally and locally variable. It is argued that the evidence demonstrates the persistence of place for Aboriginal people. The existence of persistent places is further related to a potentially fluid but structured connection between people and land. (c) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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