Social Analysis of Mortuary Evidence in German Protohistoric Archaeology

摘要: German early historical archaeology has witnessed since the 1960s an intensive debate on social analysis of mortuary remains. It started out with question archaeological criteria for inference status in medieval cemeteries. In 1970s, attention shifted from quantitative to qualitative analyses grave goods and use data labor investment skeletal data. last decade or so, younger colleagues have tried overcome weaknesses traditional inferences (status, religion, ethnic affiliation) by looking at implications ritual, new methods analyzing biological kinship been applied identify families prehistoric The shows similarities as well differences Anglophone debate. is suggested that we may learn these parallel developments, but should also fact two scholarly debates same subject could ignore each other 3 decades.