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Extended Burials in the Prehistoric Southwest

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Michael B. Stanislawski
Michael B. Stanislawski*
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University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
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Abstract

The burial of the dead is a conservative trait in all cultures, and thus the diffusion and spread of the rare extended burial pattern in the American Southwest provides excellent evidence of cultural contacts and cultural change. Prior to A.D. 1000, the common Southwestern burial pattern is seen to be that of flexure of the dead, with a few rare extended burials known. Concentrations of extended burials first appear at Chaco Canyon sites dating about A.D. 1050, and the pattern seems to spread from there first to the Sinagua region and to nearby Mogollon groups, then to the Hopi and Zuni regions, and finally, with the Sinagua and Salado migrations, into the Gila-Salt River Valley. The complex may ultimately be of Mesoamerican origin. Some data on grave types and burial covering are also discussed.

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American Antiquity , Volume 28 , Issue 3 , January 1963 , pp. 308 - 319
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1963

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