Limitations and potential of analyses of cremation remains – Anthropological analysis of bone remains from a Lusatian culture cremation cemetery in Paszowice (Lower Silesia, Poland)

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.schweizerbart.de/papers/anthranz/list/80#issue1" target="_blank" >https://www.schweizerbart.de/papers/anthranz/list/80#issue1</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/anthranz/2022/1539" target="_blank" >10.1127/anthranz/2022/1539</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Limitations and potential of analyses of cremation remains – Anthropological analysis of bone remains from a Lusatian culture cremation cemetery in Paszowice (Lower Silesia, Poland)

Original language description

The main aim of the study was to identify which components of the skeleton are best identifiable after crema-tion, because only few publications pay attention to the best-preserved bone structures in cremation burials. However,such knowledge offers potential for further analysis and methodology development. One of the most frequently and best-identifiable parts of the skeleton were fragments of vertebrae and long bones epiphyses. Similarly, well preserved arestructures made of compact bone tissue, for instance, temporal bone pyramids considered as the hardest components of themammalian skeleton. Analysed cremated human bones remains came from a Lusatian culture settlement burial site situ-ated in Paszowice (Lower Silesia, Poland). The research has been carried out on material consisting of remains of at least673 individuals found in 649 burial pits. Among them, 279 burials belonged to adults and 102 to children. It was possibleto identify sex in the case of 25% of adult individuals – 40 males and 33 females. In the remaining cases, the attempts todetermine the sex and age-at-death have failed. During the analysis some degenerative changes were noted. The analysedmaterial also included 23 multiple burials, usually double and one triple. The study was also aimed at illustrating the ele-ments of the funeral rite. The material excavated from 27 burials suggested that the remains had been retrieved from thepyre with particular care – in some of those urns, the arrangement of remains was modelled on the anatomical system of thehuman skeleton. The grade of combustion of most bones remains in the necropolis in Paszowice ranged from high to veryhigh. In few cases in the grave were found burned animal remains.

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

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

ANTHROPOLOGISCHER ANZEIGER

ISSN

0003-5548

e-ISSN

2363-7099

Volume of the periodical

80

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

69-83

UT code for WoS article

000867704200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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