Teoría e Interpretación en la Arqueología de la Muerte

Abstract

The archaeology of death and identity is crucial to our attempts to understand past societies. Through the remains of funerary rituals, archaeologists study not only ancient people’s attitudes and feelings toward death and the afterlife but also about their culture, social system, and world view. This paper provides an overview and synthesis of one of the most revealing fields of research into the past, focusing on the theoretical issues that have encouraged the different approaches over the time.