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Ceremonial Bird Burials in San Francisco Bay Shellmounds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

William J. Wallace  and
Donald W. Lathrap
William J. Wallace
Affiliation:
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif.
Donald W. Lathrap
Affiliation:
Harvard University Cambridge, Mass.
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Abstract

Burials of condors at two central California coastal sites extend the area of this trait, previously known from burials further south and inland. It was probably a ritual practice from Early horizon times (about 2000 B.C.) onward. Possible connections with bird burial in the Southwest deserve study.

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American Antiquity , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , October 1959 , pp. 262 - 264
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1959

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