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THE SHAFT TOMBS OF THE ATEMAJAC VALLEY AND THEIR RELATION TO SETTLEMENT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2007

Christopher S. Beekman  and
Luis Javier Galván Villegas
Christopher S. Beekman
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado at Denver, P.O. Box 173364, Campus Box 103, Denver, CO 80217-3364, USA
Luis Javier Galván Villegas
Affiliation:
Centro Regional Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Jalisco, Calle Liceo 166-168, Sector Hidalgo, Guadalajara, Jalisco CP-44100, Mexico
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Abstract

In the early 1970s a series of over two dozen unlooted shaft tombs were excavated by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia in the valley of Guadalajara, Jalisco. They still provide the most representative sample of a shaft tomb cemetery known from western Mexico, and they are an underutilized resource for demonstrating significant degrees of social inequality. Here we summarize the findings of the original research in light of more recent work in Jalisco. We aim to demonstrate that the Tabachines cemetery in particular provides evidence for significant social inequalities in the society that built these shaft tombs, that there were significant social changes partway through the Tabachines phase, and that the mortuary ritual practiced in the tombs shows some commonalities with other areas of Mesoamerica.

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SPECIAL SECTION: MORTUARY PRACTICES AND SHAFT TOMBS IN WESTERN MEXICO: AN HOMENAJE TO PHIL WEIGAND
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Ancient Mesoamerica , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , July 2006 , pp. 259 - 270
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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