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Appendix I. Burial Illustrations and Data The illustrations of burials presented here have been reworked by Bernardino Ojeda E. from drawings made by members of the field crews during the various excavation seasons at Palorna . The information presented with the drawings is the primary data base for the burials. Therefore, information is listed in cases where no burial drawings are available. Burials for which only age, sex, or level is available are not listed here but may be found in the additional tables in appendix 2. The gaps in the sequence of numbered burials are due to the discounting of pits numbered in the field which later proved not to contain human remains. Some "burials" are not illustrated because they consisted of fragmentary human remains, sometimes found in contexts other than graves, such as backdirt. All scales in the drawings represent 10 centimeters . All arrows point north. All grave or pit profiles are oriented along the axis on which they are drawn unless otherwise noted. Absence of scales and north arrows in some drawings is due to unavailability. KEY TO DATA LISTINGS Sample Burial List (1) 1976 (2) B. 118 (3) N 105-E 60 (4) 1 month, (5) male? (6) V.4869 (7) H. 101, in, under (Floor 3) (8) L. 200 (1) Date of Excavation. "Pre-1976" indicates that the exact date of excavation is unknown. Many burials so designated were probably excavated during the 1973 eIZA field season. Dates indicate time of first excavation. Many burials were reexcavated in 1976 or later and are so noted in Comments. (2) Burial Number. The number given to excavated skeletal remains in .the field and the main reference for burials in this book. Some of the burials with numbers greater than 100 are individuals excavated in 1973 but not removed from graves. Original field numbers are sometimes suggested. (3) Grid Provenience. A designation in the horizontal control system used at Paloma based on the location of the skull of the burial. The number in the example signifies that the burial was located in grid N(orth) 105E (ast) 60 based on datum points on the southern and western edges of the site. Decimal numbers refer to locations within each excavation unit (e.g., 105.400 = 400 centimeters from the southeast corner of unit N lOSE 60) and pinpoint the skull of the burial. (4) Age of Burial at Death. The ages of burials were based on a number of different observations of the skeletons. Accuracy is within two years for adults. (5) Sex of Burial. The Palomans generally exhibited strong sexual dimorphism in their skeletons. It is likely that there is a high degree of accuracy in the sex designations of the burials. If field or preliminary studies determined a sex for a burial but it was later decided that gender was indeterminate, I have chosen to retain the sex as first assigned. Such questions of doubt, or general uncertainty, 88 Appendix 1. Burial Illustrations and Data are indicated by a question mark after the designation. (6) V. Number. Laboratory numbers of burials , provided for future reference to collections . A "V.-" indicates that the materials were not found in the CIZA laboratories and no check on age, sex, or other information was made on them by University of Missouri personnel. (7) House Relationship. The house in which a burial was buried or the house closest to a burial is indicated by an "H." and its number. The following shorthand is also used: in: inside a house out: outside a house under: under the level of a floor in a house on: on the floor of a house or at the same level as a floor if outside over: above the floor level of the house with which it was associated; commonly , in postoccupational fill. Parenthetical statements such as the one in the example above comment on the general information. For example, Floor 3 is the floor under which B. 118 was found. (8) Level Designation. The level with which the burial was associated. The Artifacts and Comments sections supply details concerning the burials and goods. They are sometimes combined when only a few artifacts were present. Details on burials excavated in 1979 were kindly provided by Sharon Brock and Robert Benfer. Some observations seem to differ between 1976 and 1979. The generic term straw was used for grave linings in the earlier field season while the more precise term junco was used in 1979. Presumably, the later field crews were...

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