Inter- and Intra-apartment Compound Differences in Burial Goods at Teotihuacan

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Chemical and osteological research comparing burials from different apartment compounds has found that people interred within Mazapa, Xolalpan, and La Ventilla apartment compounds have similar genetic history while people buried in Tlailotlacan held distinctly different genetic history. In this poster, we expand on this research through an analysis of inter- and intra-apartment compound differences in burial goods. The Burial Project at Arizona State University’s Teotihuacan Research Lab is an undergraduate-led project that uses published excavation reports to compile a database summarizing and coding the context, human remains, and grave goods of 823 burials at Teotihuacan. Previously we assessed the degree of variation in burial goods across the site and found little distinction. Here we fine-tune this analysis and ask whether more variation appears between apartment compounds, as suggested by previous research, than within each compound. Additionally, we ask how these burial goods may vary by the economic status associated with each household.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 36148.0