Practice question · True or false
Grave goods tell you what the mourners chose to do, which is not the same as what the dead person believed.
Hints
- Who arranges a burial?
- The living.
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True
Why
True. A burial is an act performed by the living, so it reflects their obligations, their display and their politics as much as any belief about an afterlife. Rich graves can mark a family asserting status at a moment of succession rather than a conviction about the next world.
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