Assembling ancestors: the manipulation of Neolithic and Gallo-Roman skeletal remains at Pommerœul, Belgium
Fiche du document
23 octobre 2024
- ISIDORE Id: 10670/1.ded46b...
- halshs: halshs-05048100
- doi: 10.15184/aqy.2024.158
Ce document est lié à :
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.15184/aqy.2024.158
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ , info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess
Sujets proches
Funeral and memorial services Biography--Last years and death Last illness Burial Interment Funeral Biography--Death and burial Graves Burial customs Interment Burying-groundsCiter ce document
Barbara Veselka et al., « Assembling ancestors: the manipulation of Neolithic and Gallo-Roman skeletal remains at Pommerœul, Belgium », HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société), ID : 10.15184/aqy.2024.158
Métriques
Partage / Export
Résumé
Post-mortem manipulation of human bodies, including the commingling of multiple individuals, is attested throughout the past. More rarely, the bones of different individuals are assembled to create a single ‘individual’ for burial. Rarer still are composite individuals with skeletal elements separated by hundreds or even thousands of years. Here, the authors report an isolated inhumation within a Gallo-Roman-period cremation cemetery at Pommerœul, Belgium. Assumed to be Roman, radiocarbon determinations show the burial is Late Neolithic—with a Roman-period cranium. Bioarchaeological analyses also reveal the inclusion of multiple Neolithic individuals of various ages and dates. The burial is explained as a composite Neolithic burial that was reworked 2500 years later with the addition of a new cranium and grave goods.
