essay
The Chalcatzingo burials
ancient chalcatzingo • Austin • Published In 1987 • Pages: 457-480
By: Merry de Morales, Marcia.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document presents the raw data on burials at the Olmec-influenced highland sites of Chalcatzingo and Tetla; data summarized and interpreted in Merry de Morales:1987 (Document 11). Listed are location (by structure, excavation unit and depth), interment type, age and sex (general age group only; gender rarely available), position of the corpse and compass orientation, grave furniture, date (by phase or period), and commentary on salient features and post-depositional disturbance.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Burial practices and funerals
- Archaeological inventories
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Olmec
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Mexico
- 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.
- Paleoanthropologist
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Leon G. Doyon ; 2007
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1972-1976
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 3100 BP-1100 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Chalcatzingo, Morelos State, Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- Marcia Merry de Morales
- hematite pigment - use 'PERSONAL GROOMING (302)' or 'PAINT AND DYE MANUFACTURE (386)'; crypts, stone - use 'BURIAL PRACTICES AND FUNERALS (764)' and 'MASONRY (333)'; censers - use 'UTENSILS (415)' and 'PRAYERS AND SACRIFICES (782)'
- For bibliographical references see Grove: 1987 (Document 3)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 85022673
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Olmecs