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The badger took archaeologists to an extraordinary medieval cemetery. Badgers are small mammals with wedge-shaped flat bodies, wide feet with long claws, and coarse hair that can be black, brown, gold, or white. They are related to ferrets, minks, otters, weasels and wolves. All of these animals are members of Mustelidae, the largest family of the order Carnivora. The classification of badgers is complex. According to Daniel Heath Justice, author of Badger (Reaktion Books, 2015), "Categories are under constant revision, which makes the taxonomic accuracy of each study ... temporary at best." Justice acknowledges that there is still a debate about which animals should be considered “real badgers”. "Scientists generally agree on three species: the Eurasian badger, the Asian pig badger, and the North American badger." The inclusion of the honey badger in this group is controversial, he wrote, because it is genetically and genealogically distant from the others. However, the honey badger, also called ratel, is generally still classified as a “genus of badgers”.