Prácticas y creencias religiosas en torno a la muerte: Xcaret en los siglos XVI-XII, Quintana Roo, México

Abstract

One hundred and thirty-one skeletons, coming from the Xcaret chapel, were analyzed together with archaeological and historical information to know like the dominance-subordination process was given and of religious acculturation in this area that was in relative economic and political isolation. The evidences were also good to determine if a pattern of segregation of the funeral space had been used by the sex or the deceased’s age. The results indicate a new meanings of the Catholic elements inside the ritual to which Catholic meanings and Mayan didn’t enter in contradiction and some Catholic practices were already practiced equally from Prehispanic times; the local elite also fomented the religious acculturation and the age was a more significant segregation factor that the sex in the localization of the tombs.