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ALEXANDRIA
EGYPT
ANALYSISOFSKELETALMATERIAL
FROMTHEKOMEL-DIKKASITE,
2004/2005SEASON
RobertMahler
Duringthe2004/2005season,partofthe
skeletalmaterialexcavatedfromthe
IslamiccemeteriesonKomel-Dikkain
Alexandriain2002-2004wassubjectedto
anthropologicalanalysis.1Ofthe32grave
unitsthatwerestudied,29belongedtothe
so-calledUpperNecropolis(11th-12th
century),onetotheMiddleNecropolis
(9th-10thcentury)andonetotheLower
Necropolis(7th-8thcentury).2Onefurther
gravewastentativelyattributedtothe
UpperNecropolis.Theanalyzedseries
consistedmainlyofbadlyfragmentedand
erodedremains.Muchofthematerialwas
mixedowingtothecollectivecharacterof
theburialsthatwereexcavated.
Theminimalnumberofindividuals
identifiedintheskeletalmaterialfromthe
graveunitswasdeterminedat83.Of
these,32weremen,334womenand13
children.Thelastgroupincluded,apart
fromInfansIandInfansIIskeletons,
individualsofIuvenisage,whosegender
couldnotbedetermined.Inthecaseofthe
remainingfourindividuals,genderwas
indeterminableowingtoinsufficientdata.4
Thepercentageshareofeachofthese
groupscomparedtotheentireexamined
seriesalongwithgenderdistribution
acrossthethreecemeterieshasbeen
presentedinTable1.Virtuallythesame
information,excludingmarginallyre-
presentedLowerandMiddleNecropolises,
Chart1.Genderoccurrenceinexaminedin-
dividualsfromtheUpperNecropolis
(2004/2005season)
1
Fortheexcavations,seereportsbyG.MajcherekinpreviousvolumesofPAMfortherelevantyears.
2
Foracomprehensivearcheologicaldescriptionofparticularphasesofthecemeteries,theirdatingandstratigraphy,cf.
L.Dąbrowski,"TwoArabNecropolesDiscoveredatKomel-Dikka(Alexandria)",EtTravI(1966),171-180.
3
GenderdeterminationbasedonabroadrangeofmethodsasdescribedinJ.Piontek,BiologiaPopulacjiPradziejowych
(Poznań1996).
4
Eithertheskeletalmaterialwasinpoorconditionorelsethesecondarygendercharacteristicswerenotsufficientlywell
articulatedonthebones.
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