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The Essence of the Body
Matthew Sweet: How do we read the different ways in which body parts were preserved or buried inside these households? Matthew Sweet: I don't know if you have any answers, but I think the when remarked upon at all, the quick kind of interpretations will either be while it's ancestral research and ancestral veneration. Or it's some sort of these are human sacrifices. It could also be somewhere in between, right? He adds: The important thing is perhaps to think these are not burials of people in the sense they're not necessarily commemorations of social individuals. And making bodies and breaking them apart and using them for something else.
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