New study compares 60 ethnographic and 49 archaeological societies and finds burying the dead at home was far more common in the deep past than anthropologists realized, before colonialism and religious conversion reshaped the practice. #Archaeology #Bioarchaeology #Ethnography #Burials #Culture

The Dead Who Lived With YouWhat a new study of burials worldwide reveals about the strange, recent split between homes for the living and places for the deadwww.anthropology.net