Bioarchaeological results of the Suchil River Valley project, Zacatecas and Durango, Mexico

Summary

In this paper we present a synthesis of the osteological analysis of recovered individuals in this project, considering that social change can be studied on the basis of the biology of individuals in their social environment and lifestyle. Prehispanic social groups inhabited this region in northwest Mexico between 200 AD and 900 AD.

The analyzed sample originates from funerary contexts excavated in two sites of a second order and one first order site. The samples are dissimilar, but correspond with respect to the presence of common conditions as, for example, frequent infections.

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Bioarchaeological results of the Suchil River Valley project, Zacatecas and Durango, Mexico. Giovanni Castillejos González, Estela Martinez Mora, Daniel Valtierra Vega. Presented at The 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, California. 2015 ( tDAR id: 396665)

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Geographic Keywords
Mesoamerica

Spatial Coverage

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