“…Recently there has been increased focus on using skeletal remains to determine the method of funerary treatment used by the society of the deceased (Harris, 2010;Scott et al, 2010;Ubelaker and Rife, 2009;Williams, 2008;Willis and Tayles, 2009). Increasingly these studies have focused on cremated human remains, which were historically seen as uninformative and even useless (McKinley, 1989(McKinley, , 2006.…”