Novel multidisciplinary approach detects multiple individuals within the same Late Bronze-Early Iron Age cremation graves

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14310%2F24%3A00138790" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14310/24:00138790 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/radiocarbon/article/novel-multidisciplinary-approach-detects-multiple-individuals-within-the-same-late-bronzeearly-iron-age-cremation-graves/C96C123B3AAC953EAD1806B6A1C801FF" target="_blank" >https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/radiocarbon/article/novel-multidisciplinary-approach-detects-multiple-individuals-within-the-same-late-bronzeearly-iron-age-cremation-graves/C96C123B3AAC953EAD1806B6A1C801FF</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2024.82" target="_blank" >10.1017/RDC.2024.82</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Novel multidisciplinary approach detects multiple individuals within the same Late Bronze-Early Iron Age cremation graves

Original language description

Cremation graves appear in different forms and shapes, from urns to simple pits and from single to plural graves. The challenging nature of highly fragmented cremated human remains renders the identification of multiple individuals within the same cremation grave rather complex. Osteological analyses alone are often insufficient to detect the presence of bone fragments from different individuals as they are small and diagnostic elements are often missing, although, detection of nonadult bone fragments within adult bone assemblages (or the other way around) points to the presence of at least two individuals-one adult and one nonadult-within the same grave. The combination of osteological analyses, radiocarbon dating, and strontium isotope ratios has proven to be particularly powerful. At different Belgian Metal Age sites, this novel multi-disciplinary approach enabled to identify the presence of bone fragments belonging to up to three different individuals within the same cremation grave who were cremated up to several centuries apart. Whether the presence of these two or three individuals in the same grave is intentional (e.g. curation) or not requires more in-depth analyses. This study shows the high level of complexity of cremation burial (intentionally or not) and shows the necessity to carry out all analytical measurements (i.e. radiocarbon dating, infrared, elemental and isotope analyses) on the same bone fragment to ensure the results are related to the same individual.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60102 - Archaeology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Radiocarbon

ISSN

0033-8222

e-ISSN

1945-5755

Volume of the periodical

66

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

761-773

UT code for WoS article

001330920900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85207464028