LAUSR

shows how these provide durable patterns of material culture that are archaeologically recognizable. Murray makes the point that, in some societies, ancestors are everywhere. His observation is well supported by his case study of the enormous tumuli within Late Hallstatt Iron Age landscapes, advertising the power of the elites within “princely” centers such as the Heuneburg and the Glauberg. WeissKrejci’s exposition of how the Hapsburgs fabricated genealogies, arranged marriages to bolster ancestral claims, and interfered with mortal remains is a tour de force in revealing the realpolitik behind the pomp and symbolism. Hill’s interpretation of certain Moche images as shrines where the living accessed the revered ancestors through sacrifice concludes somewhat equivocally with uncertainty about whether ancestor veneration is really demonstrable from Moche iconography and architecture. Hageman closes the volume with a discussion of how Mayan ancestors linked people with the supernatural world and the powerful forces of the cosmos, manipulated by royalty and commoners alike to secure their various political objectives.