{"title":"SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF MORTUARY PRACTICES IN A MESOLITHIC POPULATION FROM WADI HALFA, SUDAN","authors":"A. Saxe","doi":"10.1017/S0081130000002537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0081130000002537","url":null,"abstract":"Assuming an individual's treatment at death is a reflection of the position occupied in a status system in life, and that differences between individual interments reflect the type of status system participated in (e.g., egalitarian versus ranked), the outlines of extinct status systems should be ascertainable. This paper will present the results of such an attempt using data collected from the mesolithic occupation and burial site of Wadi Haifa, northern Sudan. These data include age, sex, pathology, treatment of the body, and mode of interment. The evidence argues for an egalitarian status system with differences in disposal associated with differences in age, sex, and personal achievement. Differences in mortality rates are examined in light of constraints placed on hunting and gathering societies. There is also evidence of post-marital residence favoring the husband's agnates.","PeriodicalId":128317,"journal":{"name":"The Society For American Archaeology","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1971-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127872020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MOUNDVILLE AND SURROUNDING SITES: SOME STRUCTURAL CONSIDERATIONS OF MORTUARY PRACTICES II","authors":"C. Peebles","doi":"10.1017/S0081130000002550","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0081130000002550","url":null,"abstract":"Analysis of differential distribution of mortuary artifacts from the major site units at Moundville and the Pickwick Reservoir in northern Alabama has yielded structural similarities and differences. The occurrence of certain classes of artifacts, symbolic of high status positions, is limited to a restricted number of individuals interred in platform mounds. These artifacts are not found with individuals buried in the cemeteries either at Moundville or in surrounding sites. In turn, within the cemeteries and platform mounds there is observed differentiation and regularity in and between classes of individuals in terms of skeletal orientation and mortuary treatment. The model suggested from the archaeological remains is one of a complexly ranked and functionally specialized politico-religious organization as part of this cultural system.","PeriodicalId":128317,"journal":{"name":"The Society For American Archaeology","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1971-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124902505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Archaeological Implications of Social Stratification at the Etowah Site, Georgia","authors":"L. Larson","doi":"10.1017/S0081130000002549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0081130000002549","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":128317,"journal":{"name":"The Society For American Archaeology","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1971-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124535486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Some Social Aspects of New England Colonial Mortuary Art","authors":"J. Deetz, Edwin Dethlefsen","doi":"10.1017/S0081130000001921","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0081130000001921","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":128317,"journal":{"name":"The Society For American Archaeology","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1971-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121995282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MORTUARY PRACTICES: THEIR STUDY AND THEIR POTENTIAL","authors":"L. Binford","doi":"10.1017/S0081130000002525","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0081130000002525","url":null,"abstract":"The explanations of burial customs provided by previous anthropologists are examined at length together with the assumptions and data orientations that lay behind them. Both the assumptions and explanations are shown to be inadequate from the point of view of systems theory and from a detailed examination of the empirical record. A cross-cultural survey drawn from the Human Relations Area Files shows that associations do exist between measures of mortuary ritual variety and structural complexity. It was found that both the number and specific forms of the dimensions of the social persona commonly recognized in mortuary ritual vary significantly with the organizational complexity of the society as measured by different forms of subsistence practice. Moreover, the forms that differentiations in mortuary ritual take vary significantly with the dimensions of the social persona symbolized. Hence, much of contemporary archaeological conjecture and interpretation regarding processes of cultural change, cultural differentiation, and the presence of specific burial customs is inadequate as well as the ideational propositions and assumptions underlying these notions. Inferences about the presumed \"relationships\" compared directly from trait lists obtaining among archaeological manifestations are useless without knowledge of the organizational properties of the pertinent cultural systems.","PeriodicalId":128317,"journal":{"name":"The Society For American Archaeology","volume":"48 12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1971-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125766467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Binford, Sally R. Binford, R. Whallon, M. Hardin
{"title":"Comparative Analysis of the Components: Form and Spatial Arrangement of Classes of Features","authors":"L. Binford, Sally R. Binford, R. Whallon, M. Hardin","doi":"10.1017/S0081130000002677","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0081130000002677","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":128317,"journal":{"name":"The Society For American Archaeology","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1970-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127795755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Binford, Sally R. Binford, R. Whallon, M. Hardin
{"title":"5 Structure of the Site Defined by the Cultural Features and Correlation with the Surface Distribution of Cultural Items","authors":"L. Binford, Sally R. Binford, R. Whallon, M. Hardin","doi":"10.1017/S0081130000002653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0081130000002653","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":128317,"journal":{"name":"The Society For American Archaeology","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1970-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117178248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Binford, Sally R. Binford, R. Whallon, M. Hardin
{"title":"2 Site Description","authors":"L. Binford, Sally R. Binford, R. Whallon, M. Hardin","doi":"10.1017/S0081130000002628","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0081130000002628","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":128317,"journal":{"name":"The Society For American Archaeology","volume":"228 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1970-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121864618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Binford, Sally R. Binford, R. Whallon, M. Hardin
{"title":"6 Culture History of the Site","authors":"L. Binford, Sally R. Binford, R. Whallon, M. Hardin","doi":"10.1017/S0081130000002665","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0081130000002665","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":128317,"journal":{"name":"The Society For American Archaeology","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1970-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131022027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Appendix A: Palynological Study","authors":"R. Greenwood","doi":"10.1017/S0081130000002136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0081130000002136","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":128317,"journal":{"name":"The Society For American Archaeology","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1969-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116857258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}