La fiche DS : une méthode d’enregistrement des os en position secondaire dans les sites funéraires historiques

Archeological excavations on cemeteries in historical context lead to large amount of comingled bones. Collecting forms linked to primary burials are fairlyknowned and used by field anthropologist. But we observed a lack of recording patterns for secondary deposit. Thus we proposed a collecting form...

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Published inAntropo no. 27; pp. 33 - 40
Main Authors Ardagna, Y., Richier, A., Schmitt, Anne
Format Journal Article
LanguageFrench
Published Universidad del País Vasco (Bilbao) 2012
Subjects
Biological anthropology
Humanities and Social Sciences
os
ossements
fiche "DS"
sites funéraires historiques
méthodes d'enregistrement
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Summary:Archeological excavations on cemeteries in historical context lead to large amount of comingled bones. Collecting forms linked to primary burials are fairlyknowned and used by field anthropologist. But we observed a lack of recording patterns for secondary deposit. Thus we proposed a collecting form divided in two parts. The first one allows identification of a specific type of secondary burial (reductions, association with bone transfert, ossuary, concentrated bones without burying, presence of pit etc...). Then several characteristics are recorded (stratigraphic in formation, position of bones, relation between bones parts...). The second aspect of our collecting form concerns “in situ ” biological parameters of secondary deposit (Minimum number of individuals, age estimation, sex diagnosis, paleopathological conditions ...). this original collecting form do not offer many open part of free text ina way to be easily “translate” in computerized databas
ISSN:1578-2603
1578-2603