Dos sistemas mortuorios, un campamento: enterramientos humanos entre bandas comcáac al norte de la Costa Central de Sonora

Abstract

The  archaeological   intervention  carried   out  in  two  field  seasons   at  the Arivaipa  site documented a complex funerary  space attributed to the ancient Comcáac of the Central Coast of Sonora, with  two burial systems within  the same  context:  the  first, characterized by  the  exhumation of individuals to disarticulate  them and carry out anatomical rearrangements with the remains of the same body  and  bones  of other  individuals to later re-inter  them; the second  system  consisted  of two burials, one collective  and  one individual, deposited   on  a  "bed  of  sand"   inside  pits  dug  in  a  paleosol.  Laboratory analyses  and  absolute  dating  indicate a five-century  occupation  of the site, which  was used  as a residential  camp where  activities related  to the storage of supplies,  the processing  of minerals,  the manufacture of stone  tools and shell objects, as well as the consumption of plant resources  and marine fauna took place.