The Sargent Site Ossuary (25CU28), Custer County, Nebraska
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The analysis of a small Central Plains Tradition ossuary, recovered during salvage excavations near the town of Sargent, Nebraska, highlights both the potentials and current limitations in the understanding of small mortuary occurrences. The Sargent Site Ossuary, which contained the remains of at least twelve adults, yielded evidence both for the mutilation of some, if not all, of the individuals represented in the ossuary and for the differential mortuary processing of cranial, as opposed to post-cranial, bones in the multi-stage mortuary program. 17w ossuary appears to represents a collection of individuals killed away from the immediate locality, whose remains were later recovered for burial.
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The analysis of a small Central Plains Tradition ossuary, recovered during salvage excavations near the town of Sargent, Nebraska, highlights both the potentials and current limitations in the understanding of small mortuary occurrences. The Sargent Site Ossuary, which contained the remains of at least twelve adults, yielded evidence both for the mutilation of some, if not all, of the individuals represented in the ossuary and for the differential mortuary processing of cranial, as opposed to post-cranial, bones in the multi-stage mortuary program. 17w ossuary appears to represents a collection of individuals killed away from the immediate locality, whose remains were later recovered for burial.
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