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Juvenile Death and Ancestor Veneration: Comparing Child Burials of the Preclassic Maya at K’axob and Cuello, Belize (2015)
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Recently, children have been a growing focus of mortuary analysis as archaeologists have been interested in how past societies responded to childhood mortality. This study is a comparative analysis of two Preclassic Maya sites, K’axob and Cuello, and the child burials, 25 and 19 burials respectively. The age ranges of the individuals are infant, child, and adolescent. Placement of the burial, burial offerings, type of grave, and other variables are analyzed to determine how children were...