Publication Information
Author:
Akins,
Nancy J.
Title:
A biocultural approach to human burials from Chaco
Canyon, New Mexico
Published By:
Santa Fe, N.M.: Branch of Cultural Research, U.S.
Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, 1986. xvi, 215 p.: ill.,
maps
By line: Nancy J. Akins
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
HRAF, 2012. Computer File
Culture:
Early Anasazi (NT95)
Subjects:
Artifact and archive collections (119);
Anthropometry (141);
Morbidity (164);
Mortality (165);
Nutrition (146);
Burial practices and funerals (764);
Cultural participation (184);
Abstract:
Akins analyzed the human remains from Chaco
Canyon that have been excavated since 1890. She visited many of the collections
including ones at the Field Museum in Chicago, the National Museum in
Washington, D.C., the American Museum of Natural History in New York, the
Peabody Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Arizona State University in
Tempe from 1977 to 1981. Akins discusses how the burials were excavated, the
problems with the data base, the biological characteristics of the collection,
and the health of the population such as can be seen from the skeletal remains.
Comparisons are made between the great house and small-site
residents.
Document Number:
12
Document ID: nt95-012
Document Type:
Component part(s), monograph
Language:
English
Note:
Title on added t.p.: Human
burials from Chaco Canyon.
Field Date:
not specified
Evaluation:
Physical Anthropologist-4
Analyst:
Sarah Berry;
2011
Coverage Date:
1500-700
BP (AD 500-1300)
Coverage Place:
Chaco Canyon, New
Mexico, United States
LCSH:
Chaco culture--Anthropometry//Chaco culture--Funeral
customs and rites//Paleopathology--New Mexico--Chaco Canyon//Pueblo
Indians--Antiquities//Chaco Canyon (N.M.)--Antiquities//New
Mexico--Antiquities
