Abstract
ABSTRACTThis paper treats residential subfloor burial as a practice with a history. At Puerto Escondido, Honduras, this history includes placement of jewelry and pottery vessels in buildings under construction, and the disarticulation of figurines and monumental sculpture depicting human subjects and their burial in different places. Residential burial brings together already‐existing practices of incorporation of materials into constructed spaces, disjunction or separation of parts of things and their deliberate placement in different locations, and commemoration or the creation of a place intended to evoke memory. The earlier histories of these practices motivated their coordination in residential burial.
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