Burial Practices at Río Bec Grégory Pereira
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Archive Ouverte en Sciences de l'Information et de la Communication Ash, dirt and rocks: burial practices at Río Bec Grégory Pereira To cite this version: Grégory Pereira. Ash, dirt and rocks: burial practices at Río Bec. Ancient Mesoamerica, Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2013, 24 (02), pp.449-468. 10.1017/S0956536113000266. hal-01851467 HAL Id: hal-01851467 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01851467 Submitted on 30 Jul 2018 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Ancient Mesoamerica, 24 (2013), 449–468 Copyright © Cambridge University Press, 2014 doi:10.1017/S0956536113000266 ASH, DIRT, AND ROCK: BURIAL PRACTICES AT RÍO BEC Grégory Pereira CNRS-Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, UMR 8096 Archéologie des Amériques, 21 allée de l’Université, F-92023, Nanterre Cedex, France Abstract Recent research at Río Bec has revealed that interments in residential structures were limited to a very small portion of the population. Although these burials are relatively modest compared to those found in many other Classic period Maya sites, the funerary procedure suggests that they were important individuals in the household.
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