Debra Smetana

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The burials are normally sets of bundled, disarticulated bones rather than articulated skeletons, suggesting that they were curated until the proper time for burial had arrived. Such rites of intensification “are calendrically based, community-focused rites that play a critical role in the resolution of cosmological discontinuities in the annual ritual sequence”
Visualizing the Sacred: Cosmic Visions, Regionalism, and the Art of the Mississippian World (Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies)
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