book chapter
A biocultural approach to human burials from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Branch of Cultural Research, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service • (9) • Published In 1986 • Pages: xvi, 215
By: Akins, Nancy J..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Artifact and archive collections
- Anthropometry
- Morbidity
- Mortality
- Nutrition
- Burial practices and funerals
- Cultural participation
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Early Anasazi
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2012
- 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
- book chapter
- 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; 2011
- 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
- 1500-700 BP (AD 500-1300)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Nancy J. Akins
- Title on added t.p.: Human burials from Chaco Canyon
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-202) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 86603125
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- 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