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Indeterminately aged individuals are only interred with shell beads during the
Terminal Preclassic and those items recovered from their interments constitute
only 1.48% of the recovered items of this form. Subadults are interred with 2.57% of
all NB Colha chert modified lithics and one third of all shell pendants recovered
during this time period. A very small quantity (3.03%) of modified lithics crafted
from unidentifiable lithic material are from subadult interments. Slightly higher but
still minor percentages of other artifact forms are found with subadults: modified
human bone (4.76%), chalcedony modified lithics (5%), non‐NB Colha chert
modified lithics (11.76%) and chalcedony core tools (16.67%). Overall, adults
account for 98.91% of those goods recovered from the Terminal Preclassic, subadult
interments comprise 1% and indeterminately aged individuals are associated with
0.09% of goods.
Overall
Overall, adults are interred with far higher quantities and frequencies of all
artifact materials and forms found during the Terminal Preclassic than are
subadults or indeterminately aged individuals. Neither the adult nor subadult
assemblage appears to be skewed toward the more frequent inclusion of any one
artifact form; however ceramic vessel fragments quantitatively dominate the former
assemblage and NB Colha chert modified lithics dominate the latter. The only goods
included with indeterminately aged individuals are shell beads. Prestige artifact
forms are included in relatively small quantities with adults and are virtually absent
from subadult interments with the exception of a small percentage of their
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