Stodder_PI Mesa Verde_Paper_Data and Metadata Issues in Documenting Pueblo I Mortuary Variation in the Mesa Verde Region

Author(s): Ann L. W. Stodder

Year: 2011

Summary

Mortuary data from Pueblo I sites in the Dolores and Animas-La Plata Project areas suggest that the structural and nonstructural contexts of burials are critical to understanding mortuary practice in this pivotal era and in earlier and later Ancestral Pueblo groups. Extramural interment contexts and their spatial relationships to houses, surface structures, and stockades are worthy of systematic study. Pithouse burials on floors and benches, in ventilators and in fill, vary in temporal relation to structure and site abandonment. House burials in particular suggest a fruitful area of comparison with other SW groups and an important category for metadata development.

Cite this Record

Stodder_PI Mesa Verde_Paper_Data and Metadata Issues in Documenting Pueblo I Mortuary Variation in the Mesa Verde Region. Ann L. W. Stodder. Presented at 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Sacramento. 2011 ( tDAR id: 5943) ; doi:10.6067/XCV89P305G

Keywords

Culture
Ancestral Puebloan

Material
Human Remains

Site Name
5LP0171 • 5LP0176 • 5LP0177 • 5LP0179 • 5LP0184 • 5LP0185 • 5LP0187 • 5LP0237 • 5LP0239 • 5LP0240 • 5LP0241 • 5LP0242 • 5LP0243 • 5LP0245 • 5LP0246 • 5LP0248 • 5LP0503 • 5LP0511

Site Type
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Kiva / Great Kiva • Non-Domestic Structures • Pit House / Earth Lodge • Plaza • Room Block / Compound / Pueblo • Settlements

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

Geographic Keywords
Animas • La Plata • Mesa Verde • Ridges Basin • Southwestern Colorado

Temporal Keywords
Pueblo I Period

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 700 to 900

Spatial Coverage

min long: -108.037; min lat: 37.069 ; max long: -107.847; max lat: 37.246 ;

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