¿Niños decapitados? Estudio de caso

Authors

  • Carmen Ma. Pijoan
  • Josefina Mansilla

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22201/iia.14055066p.2007.22534

Keywords:

infants, decapitation, human sacrifice, cultural taphonomy

Abstract

During the course of the excavations at Coxcatlan Cave, in Tehuacan, in the state of Puebla, several human burials were recovered. Burials 2 and 3 are of two infants who were apparently decapitated and their skulls interchanged. These burials correspond to El Riego fase, and have an antiquity of 5750 b.C. +/- 250. It will be analyzed in this work the cultural alterations on the bones of these individuals, and the patterns of the modifications established. This will let us determine the principal purpose of this activity.

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How to Cite

Pijoan, C. M., & Mansilla, J. (2010). ¿Niños decapitados? Estudio de caso. Estudios De Antropología Biológica, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.22201/iia.14055066p.2007.22534

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 1 (2007)

Section

Costumbres funerarias y tafonomía

License

Creative Commons License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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