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Learning From Ancestors: A New Interpretation of an 11,100-year-old San Patrice Double Burial From Horn Shelter No. 2, Central Texas, U.S.A. (2016)
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Belongings placed with a 40-year-old man and an eleven year-old girl suggest that the adult may have been a healer. A bundle placed beneath his head includes turtle shell bowls, antler pestles, red ochre, a deer bone stylus, sandstone abraders, and an Edward’s chert biface. Perforated shell beads, coyote teeth including a scarifier, non-perforated badger claws and Swainson’s hawk talons, and other items accompanied this Elder. His participation in body painting, scarification, and incision is...