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Komel-Dikka2014:humanbonesfromareaU
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MATERIAL
Archaeological
excavations
conducted
inthenorthernpartofareaUbetween
2012and2014yielded23gravesinthe
UpperNecropolis,16gravesintheMiddle
Necropolis(Kulicka2015:65,67)and
atotalof59inhumationsintheLower
Necropolis(seeabove,Kulicka2016,in
thisvolume).Inthecaseof17gravesofthe
UpperNecropolis,fivegravesoftheMiddle
Necropolisand53gravesoftheLower
Necropolis,theboneswerenotcompletely
dissolved.Terecoveredremainswere
transferredtothefieldlaboratoryandwere
subjectedtoanthropologicalanalysis.
T
hepoorstateofpreservationofhuman
remainsandtheirextensivecommingling
arecommonlyobservedonKomel-Dikka
(Mahler2012:55-56),butthematerial
fromareaUsurpassedallexpectations
inthisrespect[seeTable2].Tebones
weresoseriouslyfragmentedandsobadly
erodedthatinmanycasesresearcherswere
facedwithapileofsmallpiecesofbones
[Fig.1];thiscouldbecomparedtoworking
withbonescollectedfromapyrerather
thanaregularskeletalburial.Notasingle
skullfromthe156individualburialswas
recoveredinanyconditionallowingkey
measurementsofthevaultorfacialpartto
betaken.Tepiecesthatwererecovereddid
notsupportapotentialreconstructionof
anyofth
eskulls.
METHODS
Teboneswerecleanedmechanicallyofsoil
residueinthefieldlaboratoryandallsave
fortheskullswerereconstructedwithan
alcohol-solubleadhesive.Anthropological
datacollectionproceduresweremodified
tofittheabundanceofthematerialand
thetimeconstraintsimposedbythestudy
conditionsonsite.Teverylaborious
Fig.1.BonesfomoneofthebetterpreservedgravesoftheLowerNecropolis(U315)beforeanalysis
(PhotoR.Mahler,PCMAarchives)
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