OHara_Sinagua_Paper_Creating Local and Regional Contexts for Understanding Sinagua Mortuary Practices

Author(s): Michael O'Hara

Year: 2011

Summary

The mortuary record of the Flagstaff region is best known

for the burial of the Magician, who was accompanied by

several discrete sets of ritual paraphernalia representing

different ritual and political roles. The present project will

compile a mortuary database for the Flagstaff region in

conjunction with the creation of other regional databases

using standardized variable states. These efforts will

allow a greater contextual understanding of the Magician

within his local community, as well as with other regions,

especially the foundational ritual practices of the Chaco

region and the later practices of diasporic communities

below the Mogollon Rim.

Cite this Record

OHara_Sinagua_Paper_Creating Local and Regional Contexts for Understanding Sinagua Mortuary Practices. Michael O'Hara. Presented at 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Sacramento. 2011 ( tDAR id: 5956) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8W37TCC

Keywords

Culture
Ancestral Puebloan • Hohokam • Sinagua

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

Site Name
Ant Hill • Basalt Ridge • Chavez Pass • Coyote Range • Crater 35 • Deadman's Edge • Deadman Flat • Divide • Elden Pueblo • Elk • Homestead • Juniper Terrace • Kahorsho • Kinnikinnick • Lenox Park • Lizard Man Village • Nalakihu • Pershing • Piper Site • Pollock • Red Bead Pueblo • Ridge Ruin • Rincon Pueblo • Rio de Flag Arroyo • Snag • Spur Site • Sunset Pueblo • Three Courts Pueblo • Townsend Divide • Turkey Hill • Turkey Tanks Caves • Turkey Tanks Pit Houses • Two Kivas • Winona Village • Wukoki • Wupatki Show More

Site Type
Agricultural or Herding • Ball Court • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Kiva / Great Kiva • Non-Domestic Structures • Pit House / Earth Lodge • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Room Block / Compound / Pueblo • Settlements

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Bioarchaeological Research • Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis • Records Search / Inventory Checking

Geographic Keywords
Deadman Wash • Elden Mountain • Flagstaff • Rio de Flag • San Francisco Peaks • Sunset Crater • Walnut Canyon

Temporal Keywords
Sinagua post-Eruptive period • Sinagua pre-Eruptive period

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 400 to 1450

Spatial Coverage

min long: -112.374; min lat: 34.908 ; max long: -111.308; max lat: 35.532 ;

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