Excavations of a Secondary Burial at Group L of the Medicinal Trail Hinterland Community, Northwestern Belize

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

During the 2018 field season, a burial was exposed and recovered during exploratory test-pitting of Group L, a small residential complex within the Medicinal Trail Community located in northwestern Belize. Designated Burial L-1, the burial is secondary in nature as evidenced by the disarticulated remains placed directly on top of bedrock and below a single-phase construction strata near the center of the courtyard. The burial consists of diagnostic long bones fragments and small unidentifiable bone fragments. Additionally, there are sherds from at least two ceramic vessels. This poster will review literature of similar burials in the Maya Lowlands and use these data to inform our findings and interpretations of these remains at Group L.

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• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 25116