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Burial Urns, Warrior Chiefs, and the Origins of the Celts

Tides of History

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The Origins of Cremation

The presence of grave goods at a burial mound seemed to be better indicators of status and difference than burning or burying the body. In others, perhaps social status, and in still others, it may have been a marker of group difference, such as ethnicity. There was broad agreement over a large area that the body after death ceased to be a body in the same way it had been while it was alive.

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