Mortuary archaeology (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only B E Charles.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "In Small Things Remembered II: An Archaeology of Affective Objects and Other Narratives", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Mortuary treatment in a capitalist society can be cost-prohibitive and a source of shame or guilt for those unable to pay for a proper burial. Coroner reports from Milwaukee County describe the recovery of miscarried, stillborn, or infant remains from outdoor locations, often concealed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dakota Buhmann.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since 2015, the University of Wyoming and a team of Croatian archaeologists, have recovered human remains from Baraćeve Špilje, a cave located approximately 140 kilometers south of Zegreb, Croatia, on the boarder of Bosnia and Herzegovina. These remains were highly fragmented, intermixed with faunal elements, and predominately documented on the surface....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nathalie Suarez Gonzalez. Lawrence S. Owens. Gontran Sonet. Peter Eeckhout.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pachacamac is a major pre-Columbian site located on Peru’s Central Coast. Covering approximately 6 km2, the site was occupied for over a thousand years before the Spanish conquest in the early 16th century. In 2012, the Ychsma Project discovered a unique Late Intermediate Period (900 to 1470 AD) multiple burial ('Cx4') made of two funerary chambers with a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandra Powell. Jeremy Wilson.

This is an abstract from the "The Bethel Cemetery Relocation Project: Historical, Osteological, and Material Culture Analyses of a Nineteenth-Century Indiana Cemetery" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Bioarchaeological analyses of the Bethel Cemetery have provided a unique opportunity to understand population dynamics in central Indiana during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With over 40% of exhumed individuals classified as juveniles,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jo Osborn. Brittany Hundman. Camille Weinberg. Kelita Perez.

This is an abstract from the "From the Paracas Culture to the Inca Empire: Recent Archaeological Research in the Chincha Valley, Peru" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The site of Jahuay, located 20 km north of the Chincha Valley, was first occupied during the Early Horizon as a commoner fishing community. In later eras, it was reoccupied by the Chincha and Inka, possibly as a tambo. During the 2017 and 2018 field seasons, the Proyecto de...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anne Titelbaum. Bronwyn McNeil. Samantha Fresh. Bebel Ibarra Asencios.

This is an abstract from the "Beyond the Ancestors: New Approaches to Andean "Open Sepulchers"" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Situated on a steep-sided mountain slope on the eastern side of the Cordillera Blanca in the Ancash region of Peru, the Late Intermediate−Early Colonial period (AD 1000–1650) site of Marcajirca consists of residential, public, and funerary areas. Interment contexts include 35 aboveground walled tombs (chullpas). While it...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Annmarie Delgado.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study examines the social status of children in the Ancient Middle East, focusing on a fifth-century BCE cemetery at Tell el-Mazar, Jordan. Using mortuary archaeology and bioarchaeology methods, the research aims to uncover how children were commemorated within their familial and communal contexts. Bioarchaeological methods will be employed to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Luis Manuel Gonzalez-La Rosa.

This is an abstract from the "(De)Pathologizing the Past: New Perspectives on Intervention and Modification as Care in the Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Across the globe, progressive tooth wear is related to diet and cultural use of teeth. In the Andes, often high levels of tooth wear are associated with the sandy grit in coastal diets. Extensive tooth wear is classified as an experience of old age. In these contexts, care is invoked...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine McElvaney.

This paper explores whether there is a statistical difference in rates of non-specific infection between two Maya pre-classic villages, K’axob and Cuello, and whether these findings can be correlated to social status within and between the two villages. Using representative skeletal samples from these populations, an osteological analysis is performed to determine the presence of non-specific infection markers in the form of periosteal reactions. Any signs of reaction are scored by level of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katie McGrath. Zsolt Nyaradi. Katie Zejdlik. Jonathan Bethard.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Bioarchaeologists routinely generate demographic estimates of past populations from archaeological contexts across time and geography. Despite numerous ways that bioarchaeological data enhance demographic reconstructions of past populations, few contexts allow direct comparison between archaeological and modern demography of the same locale. This project...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Molly Symmonds. Colin Quinn. Lacey Carpenter. Nandini Subramaniam. Horia Ciugudean.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Early Bronze Age in Transylvania exhibits two different mortuary traditions, one associated with the Yamnaya migration in the lowlands and the other associated with the local Transylvanian groups in the highlands. A key question for archaeologists has been how these traditions differ in respect to primary and secondary inhumation. The tempo of funerary...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eloi Berube. Cira Martínez López.

This is an abstract from the "Checking the Pulse: Current Research in Oaxaca Part I" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper examines the plants used as mortuary offerings at the Zapotec city of Monte Albán (500 BCE–900 CE). After their passing, the deceased became Ancestors able to offer protection to their descendants. I explore the possibility that food (specifically plants) might have helped to provide and strengthen a bridge between the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Brewer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Spanish colonization in the seventeenth century of what is now the U.S. Southwest changed the social, political, and religious landscape of the area. One of the stated purposes of the Spanish for colonizing new territories was to spread the word of God as deemed by the Catholic Church. Therefore, with Spanish colonists into what became Nuevo Mexico came...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ann Peters.

This is an abstract from the "The Ties That Bind: Cordage, Its Sources, and the Artifacts of Its Creation and Use" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Paracas Necropolis mortuary tradition is famous for its embroidered garments and imagery, though the textile bundles built around each individual also have a complex sequence of other artifacts within huge cotton wrapping cloths, stitched and bound in place; other offerings are adjacent. Cordage is...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ana Rincon Jaramillo. Juliana Gomez Mejia.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Four funerary urns from the archaeological site Matecaña (Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia) were analyzed to understand the cremation mortuary practice during the Early period (1000 BC–600 AD). This archaeological record does not count with direct descendants and is under the stewardship of the Universidad de Caldas, which follows adequate processes to allow a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Cerezo-Román. Megan Walsh. Jane Buikstra.

This is an abstract from the "The Bioarchaeology of the Phaleron Cemetery, Archaic Greece: Current Research and Insights" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper, we reconstruct cremation mortuary practices from the Archaic site of Phaleron (ca. 750–480 BCE) located in Athens, Greece. We build on performance theory and issues of identities to answer two main research questions: (1) How was the identity(ies) of the cremated individuals at...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Cerezo-Román. Megan Walsh. Jane Buikstra.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper, we provide preliminary results for reconstructing cremation mortuary practices from the Archaic site of Phaleron (ca. 750–480 BCE), located in Athens, Greece. We build on performance theory and embodiment ideas to answer two main research questions: (1) Who were the cremated individuals? and (2) How were cremation mortuary rituals performed?...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Cerezo-Román.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We examine cremation mortuary practices from Saki Tzul and Mayahak Cab Pek, two rock shelters located in the Maya Mountains of southern Belize. The sites date from 12,000-3700 cal B.P. spanning the Late Pleistocene to the Late Holocene. We build on performance theory and issues of identities to look at the life course of the individuals and the different...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ann Peters.

Improving documentation of artifact assemblages in the funerary contexts of the Necropolis of Wari Kayan (Paracas site, south coast of the Central Andes) leads to identification of multiple contemporary textile styles as well as their transformation over the period of cemetery use (c. 250 BCE to 250 CE). While artifact variability in the region has largely been organized in hypothetical phases, expanded data on garment design and production details, as well as imagery, is most usefully organized...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rosalind Wallduck. Silvia M. Bello.

It has been suggested that cutting into decaying bodies occurred in the past, for instance during the cleaning or dismemberment of corpses during protracted funerary rituals. However it can be difficult to confirm the timings of such interactions, particularly for secondarily deposited bones. An experimental study was therefore conceived to test whether the frequency, location and micro-morphometric characteristics of cut marks might differ on fresh compared to decaying bodies. In order words,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna Novotny.

This is an abstract from the "Embodied Essence: Anthropological, Historical, and Archaeological Perspectives on the Use of Body Parts and Bodily Substances in Religious Beliefs and Practices" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeological record of the ancient Maya reveals many examples of the living returning to human interments to exhume skeletal elements, expose the elements to fire or smoke, or to paint them with red pigment. At the ancient...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leslie Williams. Kendra Weinrich.

This is an abstract from the "The State of the Art in Medieval European Archaeology: New Discoveries, Future Directions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This project investigates lived experience in early medieval Germany by examining degenerative joint disease (DJD) in human skeletal remains from Altenerding, Germany. A 2008 excavation at the Petersbergl site unearthed 128 burials from a 9th century cemetery associated with the Carolingian court...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marilou Renard.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. El asentamiento de élite del Conjunto Norte Rancho Aserradero (Huasteca potosina) ha revelado un rico conjunto mortuorio. La variedad del reclutamiento, tanto en la selección de los individuos como en los objetos asociados y el tratamiento de los difuntos, es un testigo de la integración de estos contextos a la manifestación del poder político de la élite...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Krzysztof Makowski. Martha Palma. Ana Fernández.

This is an abstract from the "Beyond the Ancestors: New Approaches to Andean "Open Sepulchers"" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pueblo Viejo-Pucara, main settlement of mitmaqunas, Caringas de Huarochiri, is one of the emblematic cases of funerary behaviors involving the construction and use of open chambers. In most of the cases studied, the two-story structures of 1 m high each story, which fulfill the original function of storage rooms in each...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Madeleine Kohl.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster explores mortuary practices in the Early Bronze Age IV (EB IV; 2400-2000 BCE) post-urban settlement of Bâb adh-Dhra`, Jordan through the analysis of legacy collections from 1970s excavations by the Expedition to the Dead Sea Plain led by R. Thomas Schaub and Walter E. Rast. Bâb adh-Dhra`’s cemetery offers EBA researchers an exceptional...