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Reply to “A Critique of Some Recent North American Mortuary Studies”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Joseph A. Tainter
Joseph A. Tainter*
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Cibola National Forest, Albuquerque, NM 87112
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American Antiquity , Volume 46 , Issue 2 , April 1981 , pp. 416 - 420
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1981

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