TY - JOUR
T1 - Assembling ancestors
T2 - the manipulation of Neolithic and Gallo-Roman skeletal remains from Pommerœul, Belgium
AU - Veselka, Barbara
AU - Reich, David
AU - Capuzzo, Giacomo
AU - Olalde, Inigo
AU - Callan, Kimberley
AU - Zalzala, Fatma
AU - Altena, Eveline
AU - Goffette, Quentin
AU - Ringbauer, Harald
AU - Van der Velde, Henk
AU - POLET, Caroline
AU - Toussaint, Michel
AU - Snoeck, Christophe
AU - Cattelain, Laureline
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to acknowledge support from VUB Strategic Research. We are grateful to the excavators M. Paumen, J. Wargnies and A. Demory.
Funding Information:
The osteological and radiocarbon analyses were supported by the Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (Scientific Research Fund) and the F.R.S.-FNRS (Fund for Scientific Research) under Excellence of Science 30999782 project-CRUMBEL. The ancient DNA data work was supported by a National Institutes of General Medical Sciences grant (HG012287), the John Templeton Foundation (grant 61220), by a private gift from Jean-Fran\u00E7ois Clin, by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (DR) and by the Allen Discovery Center program, a Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group advised program of the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © The Author(s), 2024.
PY - 2024/12/1
Y1 - 2024/12/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85208239085
U2 - 10.15184/aqy.2024.158
DO - 10.15184/aqy.2024.158
M3 - Article
C2 - 39703808
SN - 0003-598X
VL - 98
SP - 1576
EP - 1591
JO - Antiquity
JF - Antiquity
IS - 402
ER -