Ritualized Animal Burials at Champagne Spring - Part I: Analysis and interpretation of burial fauna in Structure 34 Champagne Spring - 5DL2333

Author(s): Robin Lyle

Year: 2017

Summary

Excavations in Structure 34, an early Pueblo II period kiva at Champagne Spring Ruins in Dolores County Colorado, encountered the ritualized burials of numerous turkeys, canids, a cottontail rabbit and a rattlesnake. These buried animals represented part of the final closure of the structure. The description, analysis and interpretation of these remains are discussed in detail.

Cite this Record

Ritualized Animal Burials at Champagne Spring - Part I: Analysis and interpretation of burial fauna in Structure 34 Champagne Spring - 5DL2333. Robin Lyle. 2017 ( tDAR id: 437903) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8GQ71BN

Keywords

Culture
Ancestral Puebloan

Material
Fauna

Site Name
Champagne Spring (Greenlee) Ruins 5DL2333

Site Type
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex

General
Ritual animal burials

Geographic Keywords
American Southwest

Temporal Keywords
Pueblo II - III

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Champagne Spring, Structure 34 Animal Burials -Part I