ABSTRACT

Identity acquisition is a lifelong process that begins prior to birth (passive), becomes more active with self-awareness, and continues throughout the enculturation process. We argue that in childhood, as a liminal period of the life course, individuals are subject to a combination of active and passive forces of identity acquisition, largely determined first by family/parental decisions, then by community decisions as part of the enculturation process. We test this idea by reconstructing episodes of identity acquisition across social age categories in a late prehispanic (AD 900–1300) skeletal sample from the site of El Cementerio from north-west Mexico, which represents the central community of a settlement system in the valley of Ónavas, Sonora, Mexico. Artificial cranial modification, dental modification, and the placement of funerary objects reflect intersecting identities and provide clues to social age and identity acquisition within the community.

摘要

身份获取是一个终生过程，始于出生前（被动），随着自我意识变得更加活跃，并在整个培养过程中持续进行。我们认为，在童年时期，作为生命过程的一个重要时期，个体会受到主动和被动的身份获取力的共同作用，这在很大程度上首先由家庭/父母的决定决定，然后在培养过程中首先由社区的决定决定。我们通过在墨西哥西北部El Cementerio遗址的前西班牙裔晚期（公元900–1300年）骨骼样本中重建跨社会年龄类别的身份获取事件来测试该想法，该样本代表了山谷中定居系统的中心社区墨西哥索诺拉（Sonora）的Ónavas博物馆。人工颅骨修饰，牙齿修饰，