El Ombligo Burial Mound and Its Material Networks

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Guasave, Sinaloa, has historically been identified as representing the northern Mesoamerican frontier based on the presence of Aztatlán culture tradition materials dating to circa AD 1150. To explain the purported Mesoamerican affiliation, researchers in the region have deployed hypotheses focusing on economic and ideological connections between the highlands of central Mexico and the US Southwest. El Ombligo burial mound funerary assemblages are the basis for all such discussions since the 1930s; however, we know very little about the social structure of local prehispanic populations. This poster presents a social networks analysis on the funerary assemblage of the El Ombligo site. The results of this research focus on parsing the number and heterogeneity of social roles in this community but also intersect with discussions of inequality, relations of power, and the emergence of new sodalities/identities in northern Sinaloa during the purported Mesoamericanization of northern Mexico.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 41606.0