{"id":1047,"date":"2016-11-02T18:10:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T23:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=1047"},"modified":"2017-03-26T19:39:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T00:39:45","slug":"rude-burials-might-have-fueled-blood-feuds-among-ancient-sonorans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1047","title":{"rendered":"Rude Burials Might Have Fueled Blood Feuds Among Ancient Sonorans"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/node\/389494\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/4\/4f\/Sonoran_desert_sunset.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of cacti at sunset\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Tomas Castelazo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bodies buried \u00a0in unusual postures and without funeral rites could suggest a history of revenge and blood feud in certain ancient Sonoran Desert cultures, according to a paper in the August 2016 edition of Current Anthropology.<\/p>\n<p>The authors say a rude burial would have deeply distressed the victim\u2019s family and community \u2014 and sent a message of dominance and defiance. Read\/listen to my full story at KJZZ\u2019s Arizona Science Desk:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/node\/389494\" target=\"_blank\">Haphazard Burials May Suggest Revenge, Blood Feud Among Sonoran Desert Culture<\/a>s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bodies buried \u00a0in unusual postures and without funeral rites could suggest a history of revenge and blood feud in certain ancient Sonoran Desert cultures, according to a paper in the August 2016 edition of Current Anthropology. The authors say a rude burial would have deeply distressed the victim\u2019s family and community \u2014 and sent a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1047\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rude Burials Might Have Fueled Blood Feuds Among Ancient Sonorans<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,63,66,4,415,64,207],"tags":[24,167,1175,1172,45,1170,1171,1174,1173,169],"class_list":["post-1047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-culture","category-forensics","category-history","category-psychology","category-religion","category-weird","tag-behavior","tag-burial","tag-costly-signaling-theory","tag-early-agricultural-period","tag-family","tag-funeral","tag-inhumation","tag-mortuary","tag-revenge","tag-ritual"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1047"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1051,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions\/1051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}