How Ancient Economies Fell Apart: Interview with Professor Sarah Murray
Tides of History
What Are the Most Important Changes in the Archaeological Record?
There are a lot, you know, when we look at the archaeological record, it's the story, i think, that's dominated by change. A lot of what we see is like fewer things and an sort of less stuff but they're also some innovations and new things that are invented. We start seeing cremation burial in the ironage. Whereas burial in the bronzage was entirely inhumations. Rather than burning the body, you just bury the body as it is. Instead of collective burial, we see more and more individual burial. You know, this is an interesting aspect of the scholarly conversation about the end of the agian era. But people are now trying to think
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