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Hunter-Gatherer Mortuary Practices during the Central Texas Archaic
Engelsk Paperback
Hunter-Gatherer Mortuary Practices during the Central Texas Archaic
Engelsk Paperback

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Beginning over 10,000 years ago and continuing until the arrival of the Spanish in the 1500s, hunter and gatherer societies occupied the Edwards Plateau of central Texas. Archaeological studies over the past eighty years have reconstructed their subsistence, technology, and settlement patterns, but until now little information has been available on their burial practices, due to the scarcity of known burial sites. This detailed archaeological report describes the human skeletal remains, burial furnishings, and fauna recovered from Bering Sinkhole in Kerr County, the first carefully excavated hunter-gatherer burial site in central Texas.

The remains in Bering Sinkhole were deposited from 7,500 to 2,000 years ago. Leland Bement''s analysis reveals a growing elaboration in burial rituals during the period and also uncovers important data on the diet and health of the hunter-gatherers. He discusses climate change based on faunal remains and compares burial goods such as bone, antler, freshwater shell, marine shell, turtle, and stone artifacts with those found at other Texas mortuary sites and with deposits at hunter-gatherer habitation sites in Central Texas.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
176
ISBN-13:
9780292723900
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0292723903
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
1 feb 1995
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
University of Texas Press
Oplagsdato:
1 feb 1995
Forfatter(e):
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