essay
Cremations at the Marana site
studies in the hohokam community of marana • (15) • Published In 1987 • Pages: 223-233
By: Morris, Donald H., Brooks, Dan.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Morris and Brooks analyzed the cremated remains from Marana. They compare them to remains found at La Cuidad and Snaketown. They conclude that the low bone weight of the cremations can be explained by the symbolic treatment of the remains that includes only removing part of the cremated remains from the area they were burned in and dividing the cremated bones and burying them separately. When this behavior is taken into account, the proportions of subadult to adult cremations are as expected for the population of the residence group at Locus D.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Mortality
- Burial practices and funerals
- Cultural participation
- Composition of population
- 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 TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- 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
- 1985
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1150-650 BP (AD 850-1350)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Marana community, Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Donald H. Morris and Dan Brooks
- Contract No. 5-CS-30-02570
- For bibliographical references see document 147:Rice
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hohokam culture
- Indians of North America Arizona Antiquities
- Excavations (Archaeology) Arizona
- Arizona Antiquities