0 a building, or a room in a hospital, etc. where dead bodies are kept before they are sent to be buried or burned, sometimes so that they can be examined --
Appearing on the far left, it has the traditional mortuary-bundle shape of a human in the fetal position.
Contextual evidence suggests the perpetuation of constructed identities through the inclusion of worked shell in mortuary contexts of both children and adults.
Is a relationship likely between the size of the polity and mortuary practice ?
In this context it is informative to turn to the archaeological literature on mortuary studies.
Such a change should not however conceal the more complex situation regarding modern views of the nature and meaning of mortuary symbolism.
If the mortuary bundles were not buried, then archaeologists and looters would encounter the surviving masks in surface debris.
The rural mortuary precincts exemplify this phenomenon given that the imitation of elite, imperial space served to memorialize decidedly local ancestors.
There is evidence of the treatment of the dead in other mortuary practises which focus on the body.
