ANTH 0538 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Muscidae, Calliphoridae, Cinnabar
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The tattooed woman: buried with the grave goods of a male warrior, considered a deviant burial, tattoos of serpents, believed to have died in childbirth. Archaeoentomology: burial 45 temple of the moon. The body was at some point exposed to the air: 3 types of blow flies are common in the area. 1) delayed/secondary burial (p. 375) seen in about 10% of 500 grave samples an intermediary period: corpses stored for subsequent funerals, ex) sacrifices were killed before the dead actually died. 2) reopening tombs tombs were designed to serve as accessible resting places for ancestors consistent with ancestor veneration. 3) dynamic interaction between living and dead part of blurring the distinction between the two. What have we learned: presentation theme<>sipan, myth<>enactment cycle. Deathways created supernatural mythic figures just as they created ancestors. Deathways and social organization: kin based society>social position based on lineage>ancestors (mostly apical ones) are venerated.
