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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)
No full textEntella. Un’altra area cimiteriale medievale di rito islamico sul pianoro sommitale: la “Necropoli D” (SAS 26; 2007).
No full textNotizie sull'identificazione di una nuova area sepolcrale medievale di rito islamico nel sito di Entella (Palermo)
Entella. La “necropoli E”. di Un’area funeraria islamica a ridosso delle fortificazioni (SAS 25; 2007-08). Annali SNS, :71-87.
No full textIndagini archeologiche, tafonomiche, paleoantropologiche e paleodemografiche su una piccola necropoli islamica (Necropoli E) ritrovata nei pressi delle fortificazioni di età ellenistica sul versante nord della Rocca d'Entella (Palermo)
Stenopelmus rufinasus Gyllenhal 1836 (Coleoptera: Erirhinidae) Naturalized in Spain
No full textDana, Elías D., Viva, S. (2006): Stenopelmus rufinasus Gyllenhal 1836 (Coleoptera: Erirhinidae) Naturalized in Spain. The Coleopterists Bulletin 60 (1): 41-42, DOI: 10.1649/881.1, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/881.
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
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
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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