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K’AXOB
During the Middle Preclassic at K’axob, 12 interments had no signs of
burning while eight did. This means that burning activities during funerary ritual
are only evident in 40% of K’axob burials at this time, with 60% presenting no signs
of such activities. Of the definitively sexed individuals who were interred in graves
with evidence of burning, 60% were male and 40% were female. This means that
males were 1.5 times likelier than females to be interred with evidence of funerary
ritual that involved burning activities. However, it should also be noted that the
majority of each sex were interred in graves with no evidence of burning. At K’axob,
41.67% of adult interments displayed evidence of burning activities while 37.5% of
subadult interments exhibited the same. Comparatively, adults were 1.7 times
likelier to be interred with evidence of burning activities that may have been related
to funerary ritual than were subadults.
TOTAL NUMBER OF BURNED ARTIFACTS BY MATERIAL TYPE AND FORM TYPE
(Table 5.22)
ALL SITES
Across all three sites, there are 38 instances of burned materials located
within interments in the Middle Preclassic. Seven artifact material types comprise
these instances of burning: NB Colha chert (95 modified lithics, 5 cutting tools),
chalcedony (68 modified lithics), unidentifiable lithic material (42 modified lithics),
non‐NB Colha chert (12 modified lithics), groundstone (1 piece of modified
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