Late Prehistoric; cairn; burial; cosmology; ritural; curation; collaboration; Trans-Pecos Texas; arc (Other Keyword)
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Black Rock Mortuary Cairn: A Case Study of Archaeologist–Collector Collaboration (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. An unusual and highly significant Late Prehistoric mortuary feature in eastern Trans-Pecos Texas was discovered in 1992 by a group of relic collectors who carried out an uncontrolled excavation. The feature, which contained 7-9 human interments and over 500 associated objects, consisted of a circular, 6.0 m diameter stacked rock cairn on the summit of a...