Reading the Silhouettes of Burnt Dead: Using Elemental Analysis (Pxrf) to Identify Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Urn Cenotaphs

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<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F49777513%3A23330%2F18%3A43951013" target="_blank" >RIV/49777513:23330/18:43951013 - isvavai.cz</a>

Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/61989592:15310/18:73587263

Výsledek na webu

<a href="http://puvodni.mzm.cz/Anthropologie/issue.php?Year=2018&Volume=56&Issue=1" target="_blank" >http://puvodni.mzm.cz/Anthropologie/issue.php?Year=2018&Volume=56&Issue=1</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.26720/17.08.28.1" target="_blank" >10.26720/17.08.28.1</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Reading the Silhouettes of Burnt Dead: Using Elemental Analysis (Pxrf) to Identify Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Urn Cenotaphs

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Deposition of empty urns or urns containing only non-representative amounts of bones is highly sophisticated and enigmatic symbolic act among prehistoric funeral practices. Low presence or absence of bones in burnt burials can be the result of intentional activity of past populations, or high fragmentation of bones, which are then likely to be lost. The aim of this study consists in applying analytical methods (pXRF) to determine whether cremation urn infills contained bone remains, as well as to approach their initial amount. For the purpose of the study we analysed urn infills, bones and surrounding subsoil (total of 35 samples). Discriminant analyses (DA) were carried out in order to identify the elements which best separate soil and the elements which separate infills on the basis of bone amount. Infills of urns without bones differed significantly from those with bones in amounts of P, Al, Ca, and Pb, and were similar to subsoil samples in some aspects. This indicates there have never been any bones in &quot;empty&quot; urns. In our study, we were able to distinguish urn cenotaphs from decomposed burnt bodies and showed that burnt bones chemically affected surrounding soil. The non-destructive pXRF showed itself to be an adequate technique for the analysis of elemental composition of soil and bone samples. © 2018 Moravian Museum, Anthropos Institute, Brno. All rights reserved.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Reading the Silhouettes of Burnt Dead: Using Elemental Analysis (Pxrf) to Identify Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Urn Cenotaphs

Popis výsledku anglicky

Deposition of empty urns or urns containing only non-representative amounts of bones is highly sophisticated and enigmatic symbolic act among prehistoric funeral practices. Low presence or absence of bones in burnt burials can be the result of intentional activity of past populations, or high fragmentation of bones, which are then likely to be lost. The aim of this study consists in applying analytical methods (pXRF) to determine whether cremation urn infills contained bone remains, as well as to approach their initial amount. For the purpose of the study we analysed urn infills, bones and surrounding subsoil (total of 35 samples). Discriminant analyses (DA) were carried out in order to identify the elements which best separate soil and the elements which separate infills on the basis of bone amount. Infills of urns without bones differed significantly from those with bones in amounts of P, Al, Ca, and Pb, and were similar to subsoil samples in some aspects. This indicates there have never been any bones in &quot;empty&quot; urns. In our study, we were able to distinguish urn cenotaphs from decomposed burnt bodies and showed that burnt bones chemically affected surrounding soil. The non-destructive pXRF showed itself to be an adequate technique for the analysis of elemental composition of soil and bone samples. © 2018 Moravian Museum, Anthropos Institute, Brno. All rights reserved.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60102 - Archaeology

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2018

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Anthropologie (International Journal of the Science of Man)

ISSN

0323-1119

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

56

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

14

Strana od-do

39-52

Kód UT WoS článku

000442361300004

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85044266843