Pre-Columbian Burial Rites

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Culture Keywords
Historic • Historic Native American • pre-columbian • Precolumbian • Pre-Columbian Cultures • burial rites • native american burials • Mortuary Practice • Pre-Historic Native American • Plains Region

Geographic Keywords
United States of America (Country) • North America (Continent) • USA (Country) • New Mexico (State / Territory) • Arizona (State / Territory) • American Southeast • Georgia (State / Territory) • Colorado (State / Territory) • Mississippi (State / Territory) • Tennessee (State / Territory)

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  • Pre-Columbian Burial Rites: Burial Practice Among Prehistoric Native Americans: Midwest Region, Volume III (2014)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Barbara Ladwig.

    Volume III of the PRE-COLUMBIAN BURIAL RITES series analyzes prehistoric mortuary practice in the Midwest Region of North America. The database consists of 32,998 individuals from 1,304 burial sites and covers the period from approximately 9000 B. P. until A. D. 1500. The region by now comprised of the following states: Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio. The provinces are analyzed individually by prehistoric period, then the analysis is followed by...

  • Pre-Columbian Burial Rites: Burial Practice Among Prehistoric Native Americans: Southeast Region, Volume IV (2014)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Barbara Ladwig.

    Volume IV of the PRE-COLUMBIAN BURIAL RITES series consists of a comprehensive examination and discussion of specific mortuary behaviors and characteristics utilized by the prehistoric inhabitants of the Southeast Region of North America. The study of burial practice is useful to the discussion of the complexities of population traits because on a societal scale, similarity or differentiation of patterning in the disposal of the dead has been considered one of the basic identifying "signatures"...

  • Pre-Columbian Burial Rites: Mortuary Practice Among Prehistoric North Americans: Plains Region, Volume II (2014)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Barbara Ladwig.

    Mortuary Practice Among Prehistoric North Americans: Plains Region, is Volume II of the five volume set entitled PRE-COLUMBIAN BURIAL RITES. Twelve years of research that covered North America between the Rockies and the Appalachians provided a comprehensive multi-regional database consisting of 97,821 deceased individuals from 3,678 prehistoric burial sites. From that database I formulated a Plains region database consisting of 13,104 deceased individuals from 1,229 burial sites within Montana,...

  • Pre-Columbian Burial Rites: Mortuary Practice Among Prehistoric North Americans: Southwest Region (2014)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Barbara Ladwig.

    Volume I of the PRE-COLUMBIAN BURIAL RITES series consists of a comprehensive examination and discussion of mortuary behaviors by the prehistoric inhabitants of the Southwest Region of North America. The study of burial practice is useful to the discussion of the complexities of population traits and characteristics because on a societal scale, similarity or differentiation of patterning in the disposal of the dead has been considered one of the basic identifying "signatures" used to distinguish...