His Life before He Died: Pueblo Bonito's Burial #14

Summary

More than a century of intensive archaeological investigations in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico has produced a vast literature on all types of remains and alternative theories about the development, organization, and collapse of Chacoan society. But often missing in this overwhelming amount of information is the lived experiences of the prehistoric Chacoans themselves. This paper synthesizes Chacoan archaeology from the perspective of one of the canyon’s residents. Pueblo Bonito’s Burial #14 is best known for his violent death and subsequent internment with the Southwest’s most lavish mortuary assemblages. Here, his life in Chaco Canyon is reconstructed.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 81st Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (2016)

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