Abstract
This study examined evidence of stress on human bone in order to reconstruct the sexual division of labor for the prehistoric Caddoan culture represented at the Sanders site (41LR2). Specifically, the repeated action stress seen in degenerative joint disease was quantified in order to infer culturally prescribed and habitual actions. Overall, the division of labor at the Sanders site was somewhat unusual among agricultural societies. Males from the Sanders site had evidence of greater stress loads. In particular, agricultural activities appear to have regardless of sex. Although the Sanders site burial population was believed to be of high social status based on burial location within the mound and grave goods, degenerative joint disease was high and activities evident from patterns of stress could not be associated with a life of leisure.
Highlights
This article is available in Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State: https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ita/vol1993/iss1/10
Males from the Sanders site bad group wu located on the eastern slope of the evidence of greater stress loads
The Sanders site burial population wu believed to be of high social status hued on burial location within the mound and grave goods, degenerative joint diseMe wu high and activities evident from patterns of stress could not be Msoeiated with a life of leisure
Summary
This study examined evidence of stress on human bone in order to reconstruct the sexual Excavation of the site took place in the summer division of labor for the prehistoric Caddoan of 1931 under the direction of A.T. Jackson and culture represented at the Sanders site (41LR2). Males from the Sanders site bad group wu located on the eastern slope of the evidence of greater stress loads. Location within the mound and grave goods, degenerative joint diseMe wu high and activities evident from patterns of stress could not be Msoeiated with a life of leisure. Since DJD is linked to repeated actions, it has been used to reconstruct activity patterns for skeletal populations (Angel 1966; Merbs 1983; Pickering 1984; Miller 1985; Dutour 1986; Striland 1987; Bridges 1990). Osteophytosis has been used to reconstruct some of the activity patterns engaged in by the Sanders burial population
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