Pre-Columbian Burial Rites: Mortuary Practice Among Prehistoric North Americans: Southwest Region
Author(s): Barbara Ladwig
Year: 2014
Summary
Volume I of the PRE-COLUMBIAN BURIAL RITES series consists of a comprehensive examination and discussion of mortuary behaviors by the prehistoric inhabitants of the Southwest Region of North America. The study of burial practice is useful to the discussion of the complexities of population traits and characteristics because on a societal scale, similarity or differentiation of patterning in the disposal of the dead has been considered one of the basic identifying "signatures" used to distinguish cultural populations. Because burial of the dead is a ritually-oriented, ideologically-grounded rite of passage, its very nature is conservative, steeped in tradition and resistant to change. It is possible and vital, therefore, to identify repetitive characteristics of burial customs. For this purpose a mortuary sample of 17,587 burials from 385 mortuary sites was utilized to address the range of variability and consistency within the four subdivisions of the Southwest Region that includes the Hohokam, Mogollon, Ancestral Puebloan, and Northern Rio Grande populations.
Cite this Record
Pre-Columbian Burial Rites: Mortuary Practice Among Prehistoric North Americans: Southwest Region, 1st. Barbara Ladwig. Pre-Columbian Burial Rites ,I. Scotts Valley, California: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1st edition. 2014 ( tDAR id: 472998) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8472998
URL: https://www.amazon.com/Pre-Columbian-Burial-Rites-Prehistoric-Americans/dp/14...
Keywords
Culture
burial rites
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Historic Native American
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Mortuary Practice
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native american burials
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Precolumbian
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pre-columbian
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Pre-Columbian Cultures
Geographic Keywords
southwest region
Spatial Coverage
min long: -114.653; min lat: 28.66 ; max long: -98.481; max lat: 37.133 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Southern Methodist University, Dept of Anthropology, Dallas
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| Volume I of the PRE-COLUMBIAN BURIAL RITES series consists of a comprehensive examination and discussion of mortuary behaviors by the prehistoric inhabitants of the Southwest Region of North America. The study of burial practice is useful to the discussion of the complexities of population traits and characteristics because on a societal scale, similarity or differentiation of patterning in the disposal of the dead has been considered one of the basic identifying "signatures" used to distinguish cultural populations. Because burial of the dead is a ritually-oriented, ideologically-grounded rite of passage, its very nature is conservative, steeped in tradition and resistant to change. It is possible and vital, therefore, to identify repetitive characteristics of burial customs. For this purpose a mortuary sample of 17,587 burials from 385 mortuary sites was utilized to address the range of variability and consistency within the four subdivisions of the Southwest Region that includes the Hohokam, Mogollon, Ancestral Puebloan, and Northern Rio Grande populations. | |||||