Beneath El Diablo lies… fingers?
The finds beneath the El Diablo pyramid at the site of El Zotz in Guatemala have been confusing archaeologists from Brown University. They knew that the pyramid belonged to the […]
Category Archives: Mortuary Sites
Mortuary Change and the Rise of Civilization
Ten thousand years ago in the fertile lands of the Near East, the first large sedentary communities were being established. Plants and animals were becoming increasingly domesticated, as populations became […]
Animal Disturbance and Mortuary Sites
Last week, a cemetery at the St. Remigius Church in Long Clawson, England reported that four of their graves had been desecrated. The cuprit: Badgers. In England, Badgers are a […]
Gold interspersed with earth…
When it comes to bioarchaeology, there is a tendency to ignore the grave goods and go straight for the bones, which represent an academically juicy arena of study. However, in […]
Studying the Capacocha, the Incan Mummy Children Revealed
The study of the Incan child mummies just made a huge leap forward. In the last decade we have news and research done on three of these mummies in particular, […]
More on the First Feast…
The debate over the first feast from a cave in Israel (discussed here earlier) has continued. Now the evidence has been turned into a nice narrative and even been illustrated. […]
Alternative Ways to Enter the Archaeological Record (and Afterlife)
There are many different ways that cultures deal with the remains of the recently deceased. Some are more common than others such as internment in a coffin or cremation, while […]
Earliest Recorded Funeral Fest…
…Or perhaps just another theory blown out of proportion by the media. Today’s big news in the archaeological world was the finding of a 12,000 year old feast in commemoration […]
Bones Don't Lie 