The bioarchaeology of space and place : ideology, power, and meaning in Maya mortuary contexts /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Wrobel, Gabriel D. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Springer, [2014]
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction / Gabriel D. Wrobel
  • 2 Sedimenting social identity : the practice of pre-Columbian Maya body partibility / Pamela L. Geller
  • 3 Cueva del Lazo : child sacrifice or special funerary treatment? : discussion of a late classic context from the Zoque region of western Chiapas (Mexico) / Davide Domenici
  • 4 A case study of funerary cave use from Je'reftheel, central Belize / Gabriel D. Wrobel, Christophe Helmke and Carolyn Freiwald
  • 5 Isotopic insights into mortuary treatment and origin at Xunantunich, Belize / Carolyn Freiwald, Jason Yaeger, Jaime Awe and Jennifer Piehl
  • 6 Odontometric investigation of the origin of freestanding shrine ossuaries at Mayapan / Stanley Serafin, Carlos Peraza Lope, Eunice Uc González and Pedro Delgado Kú
  • 7 Human dedicatory burials from Altun Ha, Belize : exploring residential history through enamel microwear and tissue isotopic compositions / Karyn C. Olsen, Stephanie A. Cleland, Christine D. White and Fred J. Longstaffe
  • 8 Danse macabre : death, community, and kingdom at El Kinel, Guatemala / Andrew K. Scherer, Charles Golden, Ana Lucía Arroyave and Griselda Pérez Robles
  • 9 Mortuary pathways and ritual meanings related to Maya human bone deposits in subterranean contexts / Andrea Cucina and Vera Tiesler
  • 10 Mortuary sealing among the Maya / William N. Duncan.