Excavations in a Cementery at Palenque

Abstract

In 1951, in the course of ceramic excavations, we located what might rightly be called a cemetery — the comer of plaza used over an extended period for a series of superimposed burials. Three of the burials then discovered were excavated that year, with the collaboration of Arturo Romano Pacheco of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, and in 1959 Barbara Rands excavated ten additionaj burials. Although the burials were poorly, even disappointingly, furnished with grave goods, their close spacing, variety, and time depth provide unusual interest.