Children of Privilege: Infant Mortuary Practices at Late Postclassical Tamtoc Society

Summary

This is an abstract from the "The Health and Welfare of Children in the Past" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Funerary practices identified in the Architectural Funerary Complex of La Noria in Tamtoc, SLP, have been interpreted as belonging to a space used to symbolize the social and possibly political importance of the individuals who were buried there during the Late Postclassical period (1350-1521 a. P.). Most of the burials correspond to adults, but there are also burials of children and juveniles, whose mortuary treatment was part of the symbols to identify their place in the social strata of Tamtoc. In this paper, we presented bioarchaeological evidence we found to interpret that these children were part of a privilege sector of the ancient city of Tamtoc.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• The Health and Welfare of Children in the Past   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 25601