What we found in the dirt:
fragmentary adult inhumation laying within a burned, bell-shaped pit. the edges of the pit were highly oxidized, and the pit was clearly reused as a grave after an earlier use as a roasting pit or some other type of pit where burning took place. the head was toward the east and the feet to the west. the body was semi-flexed, lying on its right side with the left hand near the left knee. sex not determined. age estimated based on the wear of one tooth and fusion of the proximal epiphysis in the Preclassical period bodies were burned remains distributed as inalienable possessions within social networks suggests a relational social construction of self where burning transformed the deceased and remains were considered part-person and part-object later cremated remains were not divided but instead transferred as a unit to secondary deposits. perceptions of personhood appear to have defined self as a complete, bounded unit, even after transformation by fire this change possibly a result of a general decrease in remembrance networks. Abstract Changing perspectives on concepts of personhood are explored by deconstructing mortuary customs some aspects of personhood do not change across time and space by analyzing changes through time in cremation rituals, in recitations it was possible to infer that some aspects of personhood do change. Addendum all human remains and burial effects were repatriated to the Tohono O'odham Nation the historic era burials at the Mission were left in place, in denial the city’s plan is to recreate the old wall and re-consecrate the area the dirt the graves as a cemetery so that the ancestors will anchor and fold their ghostly sails into the collective entity of remembrance
(Found poetry/ArcheologySouthwest.org)