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- Title
BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO HUMAN REMAINS FROM CEMETERY AREAS TO RECONSTRUCT A NEW BIOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE MEDIEVAL SARDINIAN POPULATION.
- Authors
Bini, Anna; Smith, Adrian L.; Milanese, Marco
- Abstract
The paper presents a bioarchaeological analysis of a cemeterial area dating from the 1350s to the late 1700s at Bisarcio, Northern Sardinia (Italy). Historical and archaeological sources were used to consider local demography funerary rituals and the approach to the concept of death of this human group. The bioarcheological methods included macroscopic and biomolecular analyses applied on osteological human remains and burial soil samples providing a biological profile of every skeleton examined, type of activity carried out and the pathologies. These allow a reconstruction of a cross-section of this society, its demographic and social composition, its living conditions, the characterizing pathocenosis, and the sanitation practices at the base of its system and the characteristic type of diet.
- Subjects
SARDINIA (Italy); ARCHAEOLOGICAL human remains; HISTORICAL source material; TOMBS; SOIL sampling; LIVING conditions; CEMETERIES; SOIL classification; SANITATION
- Publication
Archeologia Medievale: Cultura Materiale, Insediamenti, Territorio, 2023, Vol 50, p77
- ISSN
0390-0592
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.36153/am50.2023.07