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Cremated human remains: [appendix 9]
Hohokam, desert farmers & craftsmen : excavations at Snaketown, 1964-1965, by Emil W. Haury • Tucson • Published In 1976 • Pages: 380-384
By: Birkby, Walter H..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Bixby examined the cremated human remains from Snaketown and the adjacent Classic period site of Arizona U:13:24. He then compared these remains to cremated remains at Los Muertos and from two Point of Pines sites in the Mogollon area. Probably due to the fuel used - mesquite - the fires were extremely hot and resulted in these in-the-flesh cremations falling into the 'completely incenerated' category established by Baby (1954, Hopewell Cremation Practices. The Ohio Historical Society, Papers in Archaeology, No. 1, pp. 1-7. Columbus). The remains were so fragmentary and incomplete that Bixby was only able to suggest a gender or age for 6 out of 110 specimens. Bixby was able to present a few incidences of pathologies and a few nonmetric traits.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Burial practices and funerals
- Mortality
- Anthropometry
- Descriptive somatology
- Comparative evidence
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Hohokam
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Physical Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2009
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1000-600 BP (AD 1000-1400)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Snaketown and site AZ U:13:24, Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Walter H. Birkby
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 74031610
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hohokam culture
- Snaketown Site (Ariz.)