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Date of Award
10-25-2013
Document Type
Thesis-ISU Access Only
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Department of Sociology and Anthropology: Archaeology
First Advisor
Maria O. Smith
Abstract
The motivations behind the bundling of human remains in the Middle and Late Woodland populations of Illinois were previously unknown. Factors including sex, age, interment location, presence or absence of grave goods, and appearance of taphonomic markers indicating particular degrees of post-mortem processing, assist in determining why Woodland populations practice bundling and how they selected individuals to be bundled. Skeletal remains from one Middle Woodland site (Albany Mounds), one early Late Woodland site (Kuhlman Mounds), and one Middle-Late Late Woodland site (Dickson Mounds) are analyzed with the aforementioned factors in mind to identify a pattern of bundling the dead and determine whether changes to the particular practice occurred over time.
Research showed that there was a lack of discrimination between individuals who were bundled and those who were interred as primary burials, indicating that particular
groups of people were not singled out for bundling. It is assumed that bundled individuals were not of a different status than primary interments. This lack of discrimination also suggests that mobility and seasonality are the primary factors in the appearance of bundle burials.
Recommended Citation
Albrecht, Jessica Leigh, "Bundle Burials in the Middle and Late Woodland Periods: Mortuary Practice as a Reflection of Settlement Organiztion and Social Identity" (2013). Theses and Dissertations. 55.
https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/etd/55
DOI
http://doi.org/10.30707/ETD2013.Albrecht.J
Page Count
139
Comments
Imported from ProQuest Albrecht_ilstu_0092N_10090.pdf