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A Mass Secondary Burial from Northern Arizona

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Alan P. Olson
Alan P. Olson*
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University of Denver, Denver, Colorado
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Abstract

A secondary burial of at least 30 individuals was excavated on Polacca Wash south of the Hopi Reservation in Arizona. This burial does not match either the prehistoric or contemporary Hopi pattern and cannot be duplicated in the recorded habits of surrounding tribes. Slight evidence favors a prehistoric placement. The formal arrangement of the burial, with skulls around the periphery and the remainder of the bones within the outline, suggests a magico-religious rite.

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Research Article
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American Antiquity , Volume 31 , Issue 6 , October 1966 , pp. 822 - 826
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1966

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