Learning From Ancestors:  A New Interpretation of an 11,100 year old San Patrice Double Burial from Horn Shelter, No. 2, Central Texas

Margaret Jodry

Learning From Ancestors: A New Interpretation of an 11,100 year old San Patrice Double Burial from Horn Shelter, No. 2, Central Texas

Year: 2015

Summary

Recent Smithsonian study of belongings placed with a 40 year-old man and an eleven year-old girl suggests that the adult may have been a healer. A bundle lying beneath his head includes turtle shell bows, antler pestles, red ochre, a deer bone stylus, sandstone abraders, and an Edward's chert biface. Perforated shell beads and coyote teeth, non-perforated badger claws and Swainson's hawk talons, and other items accompanied this Elder. His participation in body painting, scarification, and incision is considered, as are well-developed features of his forearms that may suggest he was a drummer. An eyed needle was found with the girl about whom less is currently known.

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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. Margaret Jodry. Presented at The 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, California. 2015 ( tDAR id: 398093)

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Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)

Keywords

General
healer and body modification • Late Paleoindian • San Patrice

Geographic Keywords
North America - Southeast

Spatial Coverage

min long: -91.274; min lat: 24.847 ; max long: -72.642; max lat: 36.386 ;