Roderick Sprague - Burial Terminology: A Guide for Researchers

Help over the past fifty years has included my Washington State University masters committee, Allan H. Smith, Richard D. Daugherty, and Joel B. Montague; my University of Arizona doctoral committee, Raymond H. Thompson, Harry T. Getty, and T. Patrick Culbert; and review of the published version by American Antiquity editor Robert E. Bell. Others include William M. Bass, Walter H. Birkby, John D. Combes, L. S. Cressman, Emil W. Haury, Jesse Jennings, Alexander J. Lindsay Jr., William J. Robinson, B. K. Swartz Jr., Deward E. Walker Jr., and, recently, especially Douglas H. Ubelaker.

Grammar, readability, and format review provided by Judy Marineau, Louise Barber, Catherine Rieser, Fred Sprague, and Linda Ferguson Sprague with special consultation by DWayne A. Hodgin. Katrina Stankowski, William H. Adams, and especially Susan Piddock provided research in Australia. Chris Kipp and Francis K. Spain provided sources and helpful discussion on range of motion. Jennifer OLaughlin, Jo Hanna Etherton, and the staff of the University of Idaho Library, Interlibrary Loan Office, handled interminable interlibrary loan requests pleasantly and skillfully. Problem solving, corrections, and additions came from Michael Morwood, Ian McNiven, Gerald Schroedl, Jefferson Chapman, Douglas D. Scott, Alex Sprague, The Wranglers, and innumerable unnamed anthropology and work-study students sent to the library to find obscure sources. To those forgotten in the dim past, my apologies.

The anonymous draft reviewers have been helpful with their candid comments, suggestions, and additional sources. Especially important have been further discussion with anonymous reviewers David M. Gradwohl, Jay Miller, Harold Mytum, Susan Piddock, Timothy B. Riordan, Darby C. Stapp, Douglas H. Ubelaker, and Deward E. Walker Jr. as well as Bettina Arnold, Karen Ramey Burns, Thomas F. King, David Brauner, and Anita Cowen-Williams. Most of their corrections and many of their ideas have been incorporated without due credit. Ethnic and religious materials and information have been provided by numerous Plateau Culture Area American Indians plus very specific help from David M. Gradwohl, S. M. Ghazanfar, and Priscilla Wegars and Terry Abraham.

Mitch Allen, Kristina Razmara, and April Leo of AltaMira Press kept the project going, made innumerable suggestions (especially for organization), and kept my enthusiasm and negative comments under control.

For all, my sincere thanks, but only I can be held accountable for the opinions and final results.