Propuesta metodológica para la excavación y documentación de cremaciones en urnalas necrópolis de Bailo/La Silla del Papa y Baelo Claudia (Tarifa, Cádiz)
- Jiménez Vialás, Helena 1
- Miguel Ibáñez, María Paz de 2
- Torres Gomariz, Octavio 2
- Prados Martínez, Fernando 2
- Moret, Pierre 3
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Universidad de Murcia
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Universitat d'Alacant
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Université de Toulouse
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Université de Toulouse
Tolosa, Francia
- De Miguel-Ibáñez, María Paz (coord.)
- Romero Rameta, Alejandro (coord.)
- Torregrosa Giménez, Palmira (coord.)
- Jover Maestre, Francisco Javier (coord.)
Publisher: Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Arqueología y Patrimonio Histórico (INAPH) ; Universidad de Alicante / Universitat d'Alacant
ISBN: 978-84-1302-075-4
Year of publication: 2020
Pages: 265-285
Congress: Congreso Nacional de Paleopatología (14. 2017. Alicante)
Type: Conference paper
Abstract
While the excavation of human remains by means of archaeological methods has already become normalised both in research projects and in rescue archaeology, not the same degree of rigor and protocol standardization exists yet when cremations are involved. Our paper suggests a specific methodology for the micro-excavation of burial urns which is currently being implemented in the study of two necropolises: one pre-Roman and early Roman at Bailo/La Silla del Papa; and the other, Imperial Roman, at Baelo Claudia, both of them on the Spanish side of the Straits of Gibraltar. It is our intention to show how an accurate methodology based on regarding the urn as an “excavation unit,” together with the application of standardised protocols, provides high-resolution information which allows for in situ identification of palaeopathologies (e.g. porotic hyperostosis) as well as burial rituals and post-depositional processes of different kinds.