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Hunter-Gatherer Mortuary Practices Durin

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Informationen zum Autor Leland C. Bement is an archaeologist with the Oklahoma Archeological Survey at the University of Oklahoma, Norman. Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsPreface1. Introduction2. Site Setting3. Cultural Background and Mortuary Studies4. Field Techniques5. Depositional Reconstruction and Dating6. Faunal Analysis7. Artifact Description and Analysis8. Bioarchaeology9. Summary and ConclusionsAppendix. Accounting of SpeciesReferences CitedIndex

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Authors Leland C. Bement
Publisher External catalogues UK
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.01.2008
 
EAN 9780292723900
ISBN 978-0-292-72390-0
Series Texas Archaeology and Ethnohis
Texas Archaeology and Ethnohistory Series
Texas Archaeology and Ethnohis
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history
Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics

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