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Italian burials from the Upper Palaeolithic. Inventory and anthropological observations
Full text linkThe Upper Paleolithic burials currently known in Italy represent a rich and important group which constitutes the major part of the European sample. Among these burials, those attributed to the Gravettian are concentrated in two regions, Liguria and Puglia. Epigravettian burials were found in most parts of the peninsula and in Sicily. Grave goods are often very rich, especially in Gravettian burials. With regard to the anthropological characteristics of the buried, research has focused mainly on postcranial skeleton and on the information it can give us about weight, stature and somatic proportions. Among the Gravettians, Ligurian males reach the highest stature. The average height decreases from Gravettian to Epigravettian, as already observed in the European sample
Post mortem fetal extrusion: Analysis of a coffin birth case from an Early Medieval cemetery along the Via Francigena in Tuscany (Italy)
Full text linkDeath was a common factor during pregnancy and childbirth in both past and recent societies. Nevertheless, the recording of women from archaeological contexts still featuring a fetus in the pelvic cavity or dystocia is very rare. Even less frequent are cases of post mortem fetal extrusion. At the archaeological site of San Genesio (San Miniato, Pisa), a stoppage point along the Via Francigena, the cemetery phases dating from the 6th to the 13th century were investigated. In one of the phases dating to the Early Medieval period, the skeleton of a female individual of about thirty years of age, deceased during the 32nd week of pregnancy, was documented. The fetus was positioned between the femurs, in the opposite orientation to that of the mother. Taphonomic analysis, comparative review of other forensic and archaeological cases and the anthropological study of the recorded skeletons suggest that, due to the accumulation of gas during the emphysematous phase of decomposition, the fetus would have been expelled from the mother's pelvic cavity before the bodies were completely covered by soil. We can define this finding as one of those rare cases of “coffin birth” in an archaeological context
Un'altra area cimiteriale di rito islamico sul pianoro sommitale: la 'Necropoli D' (SAS 26; 2007)
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I fossili umani neandertaliani dalla grotta del Cavallo (Lecce, Italia) nel quadro dei reperti italiani coevi.
No full textL’assedio e l’incendio di Rocavecchia (LE) nel Bronzo Medio: uno scheletro umano dal crollo della porta monumentale.
Full text linkDurante gli scavi del 2017 nel sito di Rocavecchia
(Lecce) è stato rinvenuto lo scheletro
denominato RA7. L’individuo si trovava
all’interno del crollo delle fortificazioni
dell’Età del Bronzo (US 14202) nell’area
della Porta Monumentale e si aggiunge a quelli
già rinvenuti nel vano sud della porta stessa
e nelle postierle B e C. Insieme costituiscono il
più cospicuo campione di vittime di guerra insepolte
rinvenuto in Italia in tale periodo. RA7
era un adulto di sesso probabilmente maschile
che presenta tracce di combustione sulle ossa
e gli esiti di un trauma cranico antemortem.
E’ stato realizzato un rilievo fotogrammetrico
3D dello scheletro e dell’area circostante
La posizione degli inumati e la contemporaneità della deposizione nella sepoltura paleolitica della grotta delle Veneri (Parabita, LE).
Full text linkL'analisi della documentazione inedita sulla scoperta della sepoltura paleolitica bisoma della grotta delle Veneri ha permesso di dimostrare la contemporaneità delle inumazioni e di precisarne la posizione di giacitur
Evidence of Barbarian migrations and interpersonal violence during the Gothic War in sixth-century Tuscany: the case of the Goth horseman from San Genesio (Pisa)
No full textDuring excavations carried out at the necropolis of San Genesio, taphonomic analysis permitted the detection of a small nucleus of distinctive graves dated to the sixth century and set within the wider context of autochthonous burials. This group was characterized by features such as wooden coffins and tree trunk burials, elements typical of the Germanic cultural milieu. Furthermore, anthropological analysis of the skeletal remains identified a case of Artificial Cranial Deformation (ACD), a distinctive element of Gothic ethnic groups. Individuals with ACD are extremely rare in the Italian archeological record and are related to the period in which the Gothic migrations took place. The subject, buried in a wooden casket, was a male individual with a deformed skull, polytraumatized, and most likely killed in combat, possibly during the Gothic War. This is the first Italian case of an individual with ACD, who died a certified violent death. The present study, despite the absence of traditional Germanic grave goods, has allowed to hypothesize the existence at San Genesio of an allochthonous group, a theory further supported by strontium isotope analysis
Sepolture bisome dalle necropoli della colonia greca di Himera: interpretazione e analisi demografica
No full textDouble burials, ie simultaneous depositions of two individuals, are rare occurrence in ancient Greece, so their
discovery is always received with great interest.
In the necropolises of Himera, only 15 double burials were discovered, out of over 13000 excavated tombs. With the
exception of these and the mass graves relating to the battles of 480 and 409 BC, the necropolises of Himera are
characterized by single burials.
The taphonomic analyses, aimed at demonstrating the simultaneity of double burials, and the anthropological analyses
to determine sex and age at death, show a skeletal sample that is decidedly heterogeneous by type of tomb, sex and age.
Given the variety of the composition of the double burials it seems that there is no rule except simultaneous death and
probably a bond between the people buried together
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