TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bement,Leland C.
TI  - Hunter-Gatherer Mortuary Practices during the Central Texas Archaic
T2  - Texas Archaeology and Ethnohistory Series
SN  - 9780292767607
U1  - 976.4/87 20
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Austin : 
PB  - University of Texas Press, 
KW  - Animal remains (Archaeology)
KW  - Texas
KW  - Edwards Plateau
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - Anthropometry
KW  - Funeral customs and rites
KW  - Antiquities
KW  - Plant remains (Archaeology)
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Preface --; 1. Introduction --; 2. Site Setting --; 3. Cultural Background and Mortuary Studies --; 4. Field Techniques --; 5. Depositional Reconstruction and Dating --; 6. Faunal Analysis --; 7. Artifact Description and Analysis --; 8. Bioarchaeology --; 9. Summary and Conclusions --; Appendix. Accounting of Species --; References Cited --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Beginning over 10,000 years ago and continuing until the arrival of the Spanish in the 1500s, hunter and gatherer societies occupied the Edwards Plateau of central Texas. Archaeological studies over the past eighty years have reconstructed their subsistence, technology, and settlement patterns, but until now little information has been available on their burial practices, due to the scarcity of known burial sites. This detailed archaeological report describes the human skeletal remains, burial furnishings, and fauna recovered from Bering Sinkhole in Kerr County, the first carefully excavated hunter-gatherer burial site in central Texas. The remains in Bering Sinkhole were deposited from 7,500 to 2,000 years ago. Leland Bement's analysis reveals a growing elaboration in burial rituals during the period and also uncovers important data on the diet and health of the hunter-gatherers. He discusses climate change based on faunal remains and compares burial goods such as bone, antler, freshwater shell, marine shell, turtle, and stone artifacts with those found at other Texas mortuary sites and with deposits at hunter-gatherer habitation sites in Central Texas
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7560/708174
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292767607
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292767607/original
ER  -