Learning From Ancestors: A New Interpretation of an 11,100-year-old San Patrice Double Burial From Horn Shelter No. 2, Central Texas, U.S.A.
Author(s): Margaret Jodry
Year: 2016
Summary
Belongings placed with a 40-year-old man and an eleven year-old girl suggest that the adult may have been a healer. A bundle placed beneath his head includes turtle shell bowls, antler pestles, red ochre, a deer bone stylus, sandstone abraders, and an Edward’s chert biface. Perforated shell beads, coyote teeth including a scarifier, 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 that he was a drummer. This Elder appears to be the earliest healer currently recognized in the archaeological record of Turtle Island. An eyed bone 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, U.S.A.. Margaret Jodry. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida. 2016 ( tDAR id: 404484)
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Geographic Keywords
North America - Southeast
Spatial Coverage
min long: -91.274; min lat: 24.847 ; max long: -72.642; max lat: 36.386 ;