Mortuary practices: their study and their potential

Approaches to the Social Dimensions of Mortuary Practices • Society for American Archaeology • Washington, DC • Published In • Pages: 6-29 •
By Binford, Lewis R.

Hypothesis

"Distinctions in mortuary ritual . . . [vary with] expected criteria employed for status differentiation among societies arranged on a scale from simple to complex" (18, 19)

Note

Hunter-gatherers make fewer distinctions at burials (primarily gender); settled agriculturalists have the most

Test

Test NameSupportSignificanceCoefficientTail
Comparison of meansSupportedUNKNOWNUNKNOWNUNKNOWN