Burial Database

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Creation date
2004
Creator
Patricia A. McAnany
Data type
Burial
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Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Recommended citation

McAnany, Patricia A., 2004. Burial Database for K'axob: Ritual, Work, and Family in an Ancient Maya Village. Version 2. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. https://doi.org/10.25346/S6/CCTFAS

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Record details
Operation
Zone(s)
Deposit type
Ceramic complex
Single/Multiple
Single
Position
Sex
Pomacea
Yes
Number of vessels
2
Head cover?
Yes
Comments

in bell-shaped pit with 3 bone needles

Comments

This is the upper view of burial 11-6 in zone 53. Individual 11-6 was a seated middle adult male interred in a bell shape pit along with vessels 084 and 085.


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Operation
Zone(s)
Deposit type
Ceramic complex
Single/Multiple
Multiple
Position
Age
Worked shell
2
Number of vessels
0
Comments

1 shell blank & 1 pendant

Comments

This is the upper view of burial 11-7, in zone 60, and 11-8 in zone 600. Individual 11-7 is a seated child, and individual 11-8 is a seated infant.


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Operation
Zone(s)
Deposit type
Ceramic complex
Single/Multiple
Multiple
Position
Age
Comments

This is the upper view of burial 11-7, in zone 60, and 11-8 in zone 600. Individual 11-7 is a seated child, and individual 11-8 is a seated infant.


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Operation
Zone(s)
Deposit type
Ceramic complex
Single/Multiple
Single
Position
Age
Number of vessels
0
Comments

Burial 11-9 in zone 66 is a flexed infant.


Record details
Operation
Zone(s)
Deposit type
Ceramic complex
Single/Multiple
Single
Position
Age
Sex
Number of vessels
1
Head cover?
Yes
Comments

This is the upper view of burial 12-1 in zone 4. An extended old adult male with head-covering vessel 118 is depicted.


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Operation
Zone(s)
Subzone(s)
Deposit type
Ceramic complex
Single/Multiple
Single
Position
Age
Shell beads
2
Number of vessels
1
Comments

This is the upper view of burial 12-10 in zone 42a. A seated adult and vessel 091 are depicted.


Record details
Operation
Zone(s)
Subzone(s)
Deposit type
Ceramic complex
Single/Multiple
Single
Position
Shell beads
3
Worked shell
1
Number of vessels
0
Head cover?
Yes
Comments

polishing stone

Comments

This is the upper view of burial 12-11 in zone 42e, containing a flexed middle-old adult. Chert, pomacea and fragmentary vessels are among the grave goods.


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Operation
Zone(s)
Subzone(s)
Deposit type
Ceramic complex
Single/Multiple
Single
Position
Age
Sex
Greenstone
1
Number of vessels
1
Head cover?
Yes
Comments

Burial 12-12 in zone 42b is a seated old adult female. Vessel 092 is not depicted.


Record details
Operation
Zone(s)
Deposit type
Ceramic complex
Single/Multiple
Multiple
Position
Sex
Shell beads
3
Number of vessels
0
Comments

This is the upper view of burials 12-13 and 12-14 in zone 52. Individual 12-13 is a seated middle-old adult, and individual 12-14 is a seated adult. Both are accompanied by vessel fragments.


Record details
Operation
Zone(s)
Deposit type
Ceramic complex
Single/Multiple
Multiple
Position
Age
Sex
Number of vessels
0
Comments

This is the upper view of burials 12-13 and 12-14 in zone 52. Individual 12-13 is a seated middle-old adult, and individual 12-14 is a seated adult. Both are accompanied by vessel fragments.


Record details
Operation
Zone(s)
Deposit type
Ceramic complex
Single/Multiple
Multiple
Position
Sex
Pomacea
Yes
Number of vessels
1
Comments

very cache-like

Comments

This is the upper view of burial 12-16 in zone 57. The cache-like burial contains the secondary burials of individuals 12-16a, a middle adult male, and 12-16b, a child. Vessel 093 and shell are among the grave goods.


Record details
Operation
Zone(s)
Deposit type
Ceramic complex
Single/Multiple
Multiple
Position
Age
Comments

This is the upper view of burial 12-16 in zone 57. The cache-like burial contains the secondary burials of individuals 12-16a, a middle adult male, and 12-16b, a child. Vessel 093 and shell are among the grave goods.


Record details
Operation
Zone(s)
Deposit type
Ceramic complex
Single/Multiple
Multiple
Position
Sex
Shell beads
1
Worked shell
1
Number of vessels
1
Head cover?
Yes
Comments

polychrome with serpentine design, ring base, killed; 1 tinkler

Comments

This is the upper view of burial 12-2 in zone 32, and burial 12-4 in zone 33. The rocks overlying the burials are depicted.


Record details
Operation
Zone(s)
Deposit type
Ceramic complex
Single/Multiple
Single
Position
Shell beads
3
Number of vessels
1
Head cover?
Yes
Comments

This is the upper view of burial 12-3 in zones 5 and 30. The rocks overlying the burial are depicted.


Record details
Operation
Zone(s)
Deposit type
Ceramic complex
Single/Multiple
Multiple
Position
Sex
Number of vessels
1
Head cover?
Yes
Comments

Aguacate Orange bowl

Comments

This is the upper view of burial 12-2 in zone 32, and burial 12-4 in zone 33. The rocks overlying the burials are depicted.


Record details
Operation
Zone(s)
Deposit type
Ceramic complex
Single/Multiple
Single
Position
Sex
Number of vessels
1
Head cover?
Yes
Comments

capped pit over head

Comments

Burial 12-6 is an extended young-middle adult in zone 31 with head-covering vessel 108.


Record details
Operation
Zone(s)
Deposit type
Ceramic complex
Single/Multiple
Single
Position
Shell beads
3
Number of vessels
1
Comments

This is the upper view of burial 12-9 in zone 40. Vessel 090 is depicted.


Record details
Operation
Zone(s)
Deposit type
Ceramic complex
Single/Multiple
Single
Position
Age
Number of vessels
0
Head cover?
Yes
Comments

Burial 13-1 in zone 9 contains the secondary remains of an adult accompanied by a fragmentary vessel.


Record details
Operation
Zone(s)
Deposit type
Ceramic complex
Single/Multiple
Single
Position
Sex
Number of vessels
1
Head cover?
Yes
Comments

This is the upper view of burial 13-2. The head of the extended young adult male is covered by vessel 117.


Record details
Operation
Zone(s)
Deposit type
Ceramic complex
Single/Multiple
Multiple
Position
Age
Number of vessels
2
Comments

vessels associated with both Burial 13-3a & 13-3b

Comments

Burial 13-3 in zone 27 contains secondary child 13-3a and secondary adult 13-3b. Vessels 115 and 116 are depicted.


Record details
Operation
Zone(s)
Deposit type
Ceramic complex
Single/Multiple
Multiple
Position
Age
Sex
Number of vessels
2
Comments

vessels associated with both Burial 13-3a & 13-3b

Comments

Burial 13-3 in zone 27 contains secondary child 13-3a and secondary adult 13-3b. Vessels 115 and 116 are depicted.


Record details
Operation
Zone(s)
Deposit type
Ceramic complex
Single/Multiple
Single
Position
Age
Number of vessels
0
Head cover?
Yes
Comments

Burial 13-4 in zone 13 contains the secondary remains of a child.


7-1

Record details
Operation
Zone(s)
Deposit type
Ceramic complex
Single/Multiple
Single
Position
Age
Shell beads
2
Comments

Burial 7-1 is a secondary child interment in zones 27 and 33. The rocks over the burial pit are depicted.


7-2

Record details
Operation
Zone(s)
Deposit type
Ceramic complex
Single/Multiple
Single
Position
Number of vessels
2
Head cover?
Yes
Comments

peccary pot (V. 110) & basal flange polychrome (V. 109)

Comments

This is the upper view of burial 7-2. The extended young-middle adult in zones 30 and 63 is accompanied by pomacea, a peccary pot (vessel 109) and a polychrome (vessel 110).


8-1

Record details
Operation
Zone(s)
Deposit type
Ceramic complex
Single/Multiple
Single
Position
Sex
Shell beads
2
Greenstone
1
Number of vessels
2
Head cover?
Yes
Comments

This is the upper view of secondary middle-old adult female burial 8-1, in zone 6. Vessels 061 and 062 are depicted.