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- Title
Ghost Ridge: A Prehistoric Crevice Burial from Brewster County, Texas.
- Authors
Piehl, Jennifer C.; Mallouf, Robert J.
- Abstract
A prehistoric human burial was discovered in a deep rock crevice in northwestern Brewster County, Texas, and subsequently dug by relic hunters in 1968. The crevice assemblage, while mixed internally, was kept intact and uncontaminated, and was loaned for study to the Center for Big Bend Studies, Sul Ross State University, in 2005. Analysis indicates that a minimum of 8 individuals were interred in the crevice, which also contained 44 artifacts of stone and shell, and 235 specimens of faunal bone. Bone collagen samples from two individuals yielded 2-sigma calibrated assays of A.D. 880-1010 and A.D. 1170-1280, indicating that they were interred at separate events during the Late Prehistoric period. Artifactual evidence suggests that earlier remains from the Late Archaic period were interred in the crevice as well. The findings from Ghost Ridge (41BS2618) supplement a growing body of data concerning human health and mortuary practices in the Texas Big Bend.
- Subjects
BIG Bend Region (Tex.); BREWSTER County (Tex.); ARCHAEOLOGICAL human remains; ARCHAEOLOGY; INTERMENT; HISTORY
- Publication
Journal of Big Bend Studies, 2013, Vol 25, p7
- ISSN
1058-4617
- Publication type
Article