ANTHROP 3DD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Shanidar Cave, Mao Zedong, Secondary Burial
18 Jan 2018
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Wanted to be cremated but they preserved the body. Cremated but his mother dropped the container in the london heathrow runway. When he died, he told his wife, "if you don"t put me upside down over marilyn, i"ll haunt you for the rest of my life. " In 2009, his widow removed him from that vault and buried him somewhere else. Worked in barbados looking at things like slavery. Looking at biological info such as sex, age. In terms of landscape of the death, this is a really massive tomb. When you see the disconnection between the person and landscape, you see where it all falls apart. The big thing is the flowers and plant remains around them. Archaeologists focus on treatment of the dead; mummification, cremation, interment. There"s elements of primary burial, secondary burial, etc. Textiles decorations and quality can tell us a lot about the particular group. Where gender roles are in people"s lives.
