Blue Gem

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This society has been plagued by the possible ravages of war or the mass genocide following a disagreement between an enemy or ally. Each anthropologist is required to observe and record the copious artifacts left behind in the burial. Indictors of the livelihood contribute to the major factors of their gender, status and age range. Excavating precious gems of blue, red and translucent show extraordinary results of evidence. Furthermore, the blue gem represents female sex, red gem is the male and translucent is children. Status determination depends on the number of weapons, coffin, headstone and artifacts the person has been buried with. The relics are used to help you transitions to the next step to the afterlife because the more wealth; …show more content…
Female servants 11, 30, 31 and the head female servants are buried near the royal family to help to servet them in the afterlife. Anthropologist have analyses the remains male royal king and his heir (9, 10) with a long spear, flint stone and severed arm & leg. Location is the precise declaration of the statue level in society. So in fact that would mean the servants are of higher rank than say a merchant or fisher. The royal female’s narrow green coffin artifacts are of a white painted black stone on their feet, green flowered urn to hold grave goods, colored shell & starfish ornaments, popcorn kernels, gemstones and round, ruffled silver bracelets. The thirteen markers of a royal female. Except her urn is the wrong color and she had fish, which indicates royal males. She is missing her body and her head is inside the urn, like a girl baby’s body. The most confusing of the burials discovered is number fourteen. This royal male markers: fish, black stone, beads with the letters K-G; 2 letters I-N are missing, however and the beads are the wrong size and shape. The translucent fish indicates a young person, whereas the body is an adult and the is under the feet and not on top. The body is oriented in the wrong direction for a male and has a cage instead of a coffin. Lastly, there is a dagger through his ribcage and one hand is missing. The rage could have been some kind of punishment for a crime this king had committed or he was kidnapped and assassinated. The 15th royal burial is a female: a green narrow coffin and is oriented with her body in the correct female direction. Her head is severed from her body; however, it lies near her feet. The head was place near the feet because was accused of witchcraft during that time period. The stone with her resembles that in a low-status burial, but is the wrong color for either males or females. After I had examined the cemetery multiple times I had noticed the

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