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Ancient Southwestern mortuary practices / edited by James T. Watson and Gordon F.M. Rakita.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient--Southwest, New.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 online resource)
- Place of Publication:
- Louisville, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2020]
- Summary:
- "Chronicles the modal patterns, diversity, and change of ancient mortuary practices across the US Southwest and northwest Mexico over four thousand years of Prehispanic occupation. Summarizes new methodological approaches and theoretical issues concerning the meaning and importance of burial practices to different peoples at different times"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction to ancient Southwestern mortuary practices / Gordon F.M. Rakita, James T. Watson, Sharon Wester, and M. Scott Thompson
- Mortuary patterns of the Durango basketmakers : a local and temporal study / Dawn M. Mulhern and Mona C. Charles
- Mortuary contexts and pit structure burials in Mesa Verde Region Pueblo I villages / Ann L.W. Stodder
- Exploring mortuary variability in the northern Rio Grande / Nancy J. Akins
- Separating the dead from the living : identification of migrants in the Taos Valley / Catrina Banks Whitley
- Mortuary practices among early farming communities in the Sonoran Desert / James T. Watson
- Cremation funeral customs among the classic period Hohokam of the Tucson Basin / Jessica I. Cerezon-Román
- Of change and tradition : examining mortuary and ceramic patterns in the Mimbres region of southwest New Mexico / Alison K. Livesay and Patricia A. Gilman
- The Longue Duree of mortuary ritual in Chihuahua, Mexico / Gordon F.M. Rakita
- Variation across ancient Southwestern mortuary practices / James T. Watson
- Contextualizing mortuary practices in the ancient southwest / Lynne Goldstein.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781646420131
- 1646420136
- OCLC:
- 1126347427
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