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This chapter provides a short introduction to the topics and theoretical outlooks within the volume. This volume grew out of an organized symposium at the 2014 Society for American Archaeology meetings in Austin, Texas, which focused on the application of social theory (as defined by the participants) to assemblages of fragmentary and commingled human remains. The case studies provide excellent examples of how interpretively rich these assemblages can be when placed within a framework where ideas about social relations or cultural processes complement bioarchaeological data and archaeological reconstruction.
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Martin, D., Osterholtz, A. (2016). Introduction. In: Osterholtz, A. (eds) Theoretical Approaches to Analysis and Interpretation of Commingled Human Remains. Bioarchaeology and Social Theory. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22554-8_1
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