“…Women must have participated in public events in the townhouse, but women were rarely buried in and around the townhouse. Instead, burials of women with significant status in the community-as evident in women's burials with turtle shell rattles, shell beads, and a ground stone celt, and as evident in the centrality of women's burials in some houses-were placed in and around houses, probably those houses associated with the households, clans, and lineages in which those women were prominent and powerful (see Sullivan and Rodning, 2011). Meanwhile, the placement of many burials in and around structures connected the dead with public and domestic architecture associated with the community as a whole and with specific households within the town (see Hally, 1988Hally, , 1994Hally, , 2008Hally and Kelly, 1998;Schroedl, 1998;Sullivan, 1987Sullivan, , 1995Sullivan and Rodning, 2001).…”