Book Review of The Social Archaeology of Funerary Remains, edited by Rebecca Gowland and Christopher Knüsel

Abstract

In a recent review of Sofaer’s book, The Body as Material Culture (Cambridge 2006), Hamilton observed (American Journal of Physical Anthropology 132 [2006] 161–62) that the “British tradition” in osteoarchaeology was “shaped by different influences than American bioarchaeology.” The four-fields approach to anthropology in the United States, where human biologists commonly are integrated within departments of anthropology, enjoys a somewhat longer history of effectively incorporating human bone studies into the process of archaeological analysis.