Convento (Site Name Keyword)

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The Hatch Site: A Preliminary Report on an Assemblage of Cremation and Inhumation Burials from Northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico (1994)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeff K. Romney.

The Hatch Site, is located on the property of Herman Hatch, just southwest of Colonia Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, along the Piedras Verdes River. An apparent cemetery consisting of both cremation and inhumation burials is what presently constitutes the Hatch Site. The author is inclined to believe that the remains of a village are only a couple of hundred yards to the west and southwest of the cemetery. This belief is based on the information given to by the workmen who have plowed this area...


Rakita_The Mortuary Practices of the Casas Grandes Region: A Preliminary Database. (2011)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Gordon Rakita.

I present a preliminary regional database of mortuary practices for the Casas Grandes region of Chihuahua, Mexico. The reported prehistoric mortuary remains from the region are overwhelmingly drawn from the Paquime and Convento sites reported by Charles C. DiPeso and colleagues. Often overlooked, however, are several smaller samples that are reported with less detail. Given the complex nature of mortuary ritual from the region (especially in the late ceramic periods), the structure of the...


Southwest Mortuary Database Project: 2011 SAA E-Session: Mortuary Practices in the American Southwest: Meta-Data Issues in the Development of a Regional Database
PROJECT Gordon Rakita. M Scott Thompson.

The study of prehistoric mortuary practices in the American Southwest is undergoing tremendous change in the new millennium. The challenges (and opportunities) of NAGPRA implementation, declines in the number of large samples being excavated, and loss of data from previously excavated samples have altered mortuary archaeology in the region. Given this state of affairs, the development of an integrated regional database of prehistoric mortuary practices is imperative. This session at the 76th...