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Archaeological Identification of Kin Groups Using Mortuary and Biological Data: An Example from the American Southwest

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Todd L. Howell  and
Keith W. Kintigh
Todd L. Howell
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, Box 872402, Tempe, AZ 85287–2402
Keith W. Kintigh
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, Box 872402, Tempe, AZ 85287–2402
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Abstract

Despite the central role that kinship plays in key anthropological arguments, recent archaeological efforts to detect kinship have been notably scarce. Here, age and sex distributions and dental morphology traits that reflect genetic affinity are used to argue that specific kin groups were buried in formal, spatially discrete cemeteries in the ancestral Zuni settlement of Hawikku. The inferred kin groups are then used to investigate Hawikku political structure. Results show that community leaders, identified on the basis of mortuary treatments and grave offerings, were selected from a small number of kin groups, suggesting an ascriptive element to leadership selection.

A pesar de que el parentesco es un tema central en argumentos antropológicos, esfuerzos arquelogicos recientes enfocados en la identificación de parentesco han sido notablemente escasos. En este artículo presentamos distribuciones de sexoy edad y rasgos de morfología dental que reflejan afinidad genética para inferir que específicos grupos de parentesco fueron enterrados en cemeterios formales y espacialmente discretos en Hawikku, un asentamiento ancestral Zuni. Los grupos de parentesco así identificados se incorporan en la investigación de la estructura politica de Hawikku. Los resultados demuestran que los líderes de la comunidad, identificados en base a tratamiento mortuarioy ofrendas funerarias, fueron seleccionados de entre un reducido número de grupos de parentesco, lo cual sugiere un elemento adscrito en la selección de liderazgo.

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American Antiquity , Volume 61 , Issue 3 , July 1996 , pp. 537 - 554
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1996

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