Childhood, Motherhood, and the Body in Iron Age Europe: Interview with Professor Katharina Rebay-Salisbury
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The Origins of the Cremation Burial Right
There must be some sort of ideology or other drives that some sort of belief that was really changing and then it became reinforced and reinforced through practice because people wanted once once everybody was cremating, you had to cremate too. And we can often see this as sort of the founding generation of late Bronze Age cemeteries is in a way special and might have come from somewhere else and builds a new community. Unless something else happened, there are certainly also examples where two certain groups of people or two certain individuals, the regular burial right would not be applied. So I think it is a bit of everything.
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