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Childhood, Motherhood, and the Body in Iron Age Europe: Interview with Professor Katharina Rebay-Salisbury

Tides of History

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The Different Ways of Relating to the Dead

Some people don't know that we have like really large bits of the cremation and people think these are ashes, but it's not. And you can actually identify this even after cremation. That people in the past have identified these bits and stacked them up in anatomical order in urn. So it was clearly important. It just struck me that that's such a different way of relating to the dead and relating to death as a concept than to be so totally separated from it that we're completely unfamiliar with even the products of the disposal of the body.

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