ABSTRACT
Dr. John S. Billings, surgeon with the United States Army Medical Museum, thus described how one of the first explorations of prehistoric remains in the American Southwest, Frank Hamilton Cushing’s Hemenway Expedition (Matthews et al., 1893), developed its bioarchaeological component (see Chapter 1). Then, as now, the analysis of prehistoric human burials was frequently an afterthought for many researchers working in the Southwest. Unfortunately, Buikstra’s (1991:174) call for “fm]utually designed research strategies” between archaeologists and biological anthropologists still remains for the most part “an elusive goal” in this region.
