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Transforming cremation?

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2016

John Pearce
John Pearce*
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Department of Classics, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK (Email: john.pearce@kcl.ac.uk)
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Antiquity , Volume 90 , Issue 350 , April 2016 , pp. 528 - 531
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