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Type: settlement
Population: 440-500 individuals
Structures: 88 residential, averaging 48 square meters
Production: agriculture, hunting, weaving
Artifacts: evidence for part-time specialization: red-painted
pottery vessels (20 households), embrodered plain-woven fabrics (12), farming
implements (stone digging-stick weights) (11)
Type: cemetery (associated with Site 31)
Total Population: 800 burials
Average Height (female): 156 +/- 1.2 cm
Average Height (male): 162 +/- 1.3 cm
Infants less than 2 years old: 275
Juveniles, adolescents and adults: 525
Over 35 years old: 10
Burial types: infants buried in red-painted jars; others buried
in flexed position
Grave goods: 1-3 red-painted plates with remains of domesticated
plant foods (92% of juvenile and adult burials); slings (adolescent and
adult males); spinning, weaving, and sewing implements (females); hammer-stones
(11 males)
Site 33
Type: settlement
Population: 375-420 individuals
Structures: 75 residential, averaging 51 square meters
Production: agriculture, hunting, weaving
Artifacts: evidence for part-time specialization: red-painted
pottery vessels (21 households), tapestries (16), farming implements (stone
digging-stick weights) (7)
Site 34
Type: cemetery (associated with Site 33)
Total Population: 750 burials
Average Height (female): 156 +/- 1.3 cm
Average Height (male): 162 +/- 1.4 cm
Infants less than 2 years old: 275
Juveniles, adolescents and adults: 475
Over 35 years old: 10
Burial types: infants buried in red-painted jars; others buried
in flexed position
Grave goods: 1-4 red-painted plates with remains of domesticated
plant foods (89% of juvenile and adult burials); slings (adolescent and
adult males); spinning, weaving, and sewing implements (females)
Site 35
Type: settlement
Population: 400-445 individuals
Structures: 80 residential, averaging 49.3 square meters
Production: agriculture, hunting, weaving
Artifacts: evidence for part-time specialization: red-painted
pottery vessels (18 households), embroidered fabrics (11), farming implements
(stone digging-stick weights) (8)
Site 36
Type: cemetery (associated with Site 35)
Total Population: 800 burials
Average Height (female): 156 +/- 2.0 cm
Average Height (male): 162 +/- 1.6 cm
Infants less than 2 years old: 300
Juveniles, adolescents and adults: 500
Over 35 years old: 15
Burial types: infants buried in red-painted jars; others buried
in flexed position
Grave goods: 1-3 red-painted plates with remains of domesticated
plant foods (93% of juvenile and adult burials); slings (adolescent and
adult males); spinning, weaving, and sewing implements (females); kits
containing stoneworking tools (18 males)
Site 37
Type: settlement/production center
Population: 60 individuals (in fall)
Structures: 13 residential, averaging 52 square meters (12 occupied
only from September to December); food storehouse; warehouse (stored raw
materials, weapons, cloth); woven fabric workshop; stone weapon workshop
Production: no food production; embroidered cloth and tapestries,
stone weapons
Artifacts: embroidered and tapestry scraps, broken and/or expended
stoneworking implements
Site 38
Type: settlement
Population: 250-300 individuals
Structures: 50 residential, averaging 60 square meters; 5 storage
facilities at southern edge
Production: no food production; spinning and weaving (female)
Artifacts: spindle whorl fragments
Site 39
Type: cemetery (associated with Site 38)
Total Population: 102 burials
Average Height (female): 157 +/- 1.5 cm
Average Height (male): 168 +/- 2.0 cm
Infants less than 2 years old: 22
Juveniles, adolescents and adults: 80
Over 35 years old: 12
Burial types: infants buried in red-painted jars; others buried
in flexed position in tombs with wooden walls and cane roofs
Grave goods: red-painted plates with remains of domesticated
plant foods, and jade necklaces (100% of juvenile and adult burials); at
least one additional human skull on left side, 14 with puncture wounds
or fractures (30 adolescent and adult males)
Site 40
Type: specialized production/residential center
Population: 45-70 individuals
Structures: 8 residential structures/workshops, averaging 60
square meters; storehouse on southern edge (stored spondylus shell, nodules
of jade and turquoise, gold and silver ores, tin, copper)
Production: no food production; jade and turquoise working (2
structures); alloys and gold and silver jewelry (1); archaized red-painted
pottery vessels (1); woodworking (2); stone carving (2)
Site 41
Type: cemetery (associated with Site 40)
Total Population: 90 burials
Average Height (female): 156 +/- 1.8 cm
Average Height (male): 159 +/- 2.0 cm
Infants less than 2 years old: 40
Juveniles, adolescents and adults: 50
Over 35 years old: 5
Burial types: infants buried in red-painted jars; others buried
in flexed position
Grave goods: 1-4 red-painted plates with remains of domesticated
plant foods, 1-3 turquoise necklaces, and tool kits (100% of juvenile and
adult burials)
Site 42
Type: truncated pyramid
Population: 10-12 individuals housed in residential structure;
24 burials
Structures: 1 residential, 100 square meters covered floor space;
storehouse (stored jade and turquose jewelry, food remains, spondylus shell)
Prodution: none
Artifacts: remains of cultivated plants, spondylus and marine
fish in offering pits in each corner; fragments of pottery vessels from
Site
40
Burials: 4 adolescents with hands tied behind their backs buried
beneath each corner; first tomb (earlier): 50-year-old man, 170 cm tall,
25-year-old woman, 156 cm tall, two infants in red-painted jars; second
tomb (more recent): 45-year-old man, 172 cm tall, 50-year-old woman, 163
cm tall, two children
Grave goods: 1 jade and 1 tuquose necklace (16 adolescents buried
at the corners); jade necklaces and silver pins (both men and later woman)
Site 43
Type: settlement
Population: 10-20 individuals
Structures: 1 residential structure, 400 square meters covered
floor space, divided into a public area, a kitchen area, and 4 sleeping
areas
Production: none
Artifacts: food scraps, cloth similar to that produced at Site
37, pottery vessels from Site 40
Site 44
Type: 3 elaborate stone burial vaults (labor investment of 1-2
million person-days with skilled and unskilled labor; one vault incomplete)
(associated with Site 43)
Total Population: 16 burials
Earlier vault: 50-year-old man, 161
cm tall; 25-year-old woman, 158 cm tall; 30-year-old woman, 157 cm tall;
(presumably male) 10-year-old juvenile; 3 infants less than 2 years old
Later vault: 45-year-old adult man,
170 cm tall; 20-year-old woman, 158 cm tall; 25-year-old woman, 159 cm
tall; 30-year-old woman, 166 cm tall; 4 infants less than 2 years old
Burial types:
Earlier vault: adult male in elaborate
wooden coffin with turquoise, jade, spondylus, gold and silver inlays,
covered by limestone sarcophagus; juvenile in carved wooden coffin; three
adult females in flexed position; 3 infants in red-painted jars
Later vault: adult male and eldest
female in elaborate wooden coffins with turquoise, jade, spondylus, gold
and silver inlays, covered by limestone sarcophagi; 4 infants in red-painted
jars
Grave goods:
Earlier vault: 200 red-painted pottery
plates, 20 gold plates, 16 silver bottles; 10 gold and 5 silver plates
with domesticated plant foods, tapestry tunic and 12 necklaces: 3 silver,
3 gold, 6 spondylus (adult male); 5 silver plates with domesticated plant
foods, tapestry tunic and gold and silver necklaces (juvenile); tapestry
garments and turquoise necklaces (3 adult females)
Later vault: 250 pottery plates and
jars, 20 gold bowls, 50 silver cups, 3 carved jade bowls; 10 gold, 3 silver,
1 jade bowl with domesticated plant foods, tapestry tunic and 15 necklaces:
3 silver, 3 gold, 9 spondylus (adult male); tapestry garment, silver pin,
2 necklaces: turquoise and spondylus (30-year-old female); tapestry garments,
silver pins, turquoise necklaces (2 younger females)