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Living with death: what moral consideration of mortuary practices reveals about the plurality of worldviews in the multi-millennial past of Central Fennoscandia

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Pages 287-304 | Received 11 Jan 2018, Accepted 11 Dec 2018, Published online: 24 Oct 2019

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