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Archaeology | Paleo-Indian site might demonstrate

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Topic: Archaeology | Paleo-Indian site might demonstrate

Posted By: Centrix Vigilis
Subject: Archaeology | Paleo-Indian site might demonstrate
Date Posted: 17-Apr-2012 at 15:49

An interesting read on the work and theories on the Crowfield site up in Canada.

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science/2012/04/15/paleo-indian-site-might-demonstrate-early-ritual.html - http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science/2012/04/15/paleo-indian-site-might-demonstrate-early-ritual.html

see also for background: http://ohio-archaeology.blogspot.com/2012/04/paleoindian-ceremonies.html - http://ohio-archaeology.blogspot.com/2012/04/paleoindian-ceremonies.html

http://diggingontario.uwo.ca/Palaeo.html - http://diggingontario.uwo.ca/Palaeo.html

http://uwo.academia.edu/ChristopherJEllis/Papers/130368/The_Crowfield_and_Caradoc_Sites_Ontario_Glimpses_of_Palaeo-Indian_Sacred_Ritual_and_World_View - http://uwo.academia.edu/ChristopherJEllis/Papers/130368/The_Crowfield_and_Caradoc_Sites_Ontario_Glimpses_of_Palaeo-Indian_Sacred_Ritual_and_World_View

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Posted By: Nick1986
Date Posted: 18-Apr-2012 at 19:31

Very interesting. The deceased must have been very high status if his family could afford to burn his worldly possessions on the pyre

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Posted By: red clay
Date Posted: 19-Apr-2012 at 09:42

What they have found here in NJ is that the burial customs changed at the start of the early Archaic. They became more ritualised. The early people didn't always cremate the body, but would bury the body then have a ritual fire into which would be thrown offerings, not just the belongings of the deceased. A standard find will include a ritual fire with 3 bannerstones buried just outside the fires edge. These customs continued through the middle A, becoming more elaborate.

[Koens-Crispin culture, Savich Farm site] The "Whale tail" bannerstones that are associated with this era were found at KC, just outside the ritual fire pit.

No Early A or Middle A remains have ever been found intact. The acidity of the soil here in NJ has destroyed them.

As an aside, about half of the artifacts I have found in this area appear to have been exposed to fire.

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