Howell_Hawikku_Paper and Metadata_In With the Old: Examining Issues in Using Older Mortuary Data

Author(s): Todd Howell

Year: 2011

Summary

The use of mortuary data collected early this century

poses a number of problems and opportunities. In this

paper I address some of these issues with respect to

mortuary databases from the ancestral Zuni villages of

Hawikku and Kechipawan. These data were collected in

the 1910s and 1920s; the excavations had goals that

were somewhat different than current goals. This paper

explores the basic qualities of these databases and the

challenges of making the data comparable to other

Southwestern mortuary datasets.

Cite this Record

Howell_Hawikku_Paper and Metadata_In With the Old: Examining Issues in Using Older Mortuary Data. Todd Howell. Presented at 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Sacramento. 2011 ( tDAR id: 5936) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8TQ603W

Keywords

Culture
Ancestral Puebloan • Historic • Historic Native American • Zuni

Material
Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Fauna • Ground Stone • Human Remains • Macrobotanical • Mineral • Shell • Wood

Site Name
Hawikku

Site Type
Cemetery • Church / Religious Structure • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Kiva / Great Kiva • Non-Domestic Structures • Plaza • Room Block / Compound / Pueblo • Settlements

Investigation Types
Bioarchaeological Research • Collections Research • Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis

Geographic Keywords
Pueblo of Zuni

Temporal Keywords
Historic Period • Pueblo IV period

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 1350 to 1680

Spatial Coverage

min long: -109.045; min lat: 34.933 ; max long: -108.688; max lat: 35.173 ;

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