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COLHA
o Space Function: All subadults are recovered from domestic contexts.
o Artifact Function: Subadults are equally likely to be buried with
practical and prestige goods.
o Head Cover/No Head Cover: During the Terminal Preclassic, there
are seven instances of head covers within interments, all occurring at
K’axob.
Males (n=0)
o Cranial Orientation: No definitively sexed males or females are
found in the Terminal Preclassic population of Colha. Only three
indeterminately sexed individuals were recovered from the site
during this time period. All had indeterminate cranial orientations.
o Burial Position: Two of the three indeterminately sexed individuals
were found in indeterminate burial postures while the third was in a
flexed position.
o Burned/Unburned: All instances of burning activities within
interments are seen at K’axob during this time.
o Pigmented/Unpigmented: All instance of red pigment within
interments are seen at K’axob during this time.
o Cross Motif/No Cross Motif: Three cross motif vessels from two
interments are seen during this period. All occur at K’axob.
o Material: The indeterminately sexed individuals interred at the site
during this time period are overwhelmingly accompanied by shell
goods with small numbers of greenstone and ceramic objects.
o Form: Shell beads comprise the overwhelming majority of all
recovered artifacts from interments of these individuals. Greenstone
beads and earflares, ceramic vessels and ceramic musical instruments
comprise much smaller quantities of goods interred with these
decedents.
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