Resting in Peace or in Pieces? Tomb I and Death Management in the 3rd Millennium BC at the Perdigões Enclosure (Reguengos de Monsaraz, Portugal): Understanding mortuary practices and collective burials in Chalcolithic Portugal

Author:   Lucy Shaw Evangelista ,  Leonardo García Sanjuán
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Pages:   224
Publication Date:   31 October 2019
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Resting in Peace or in Pieces? Tomb I and Death Management in the 3rd Millennium BC at the Perdigões Enclosure (Reguengos de Monsaraz, Portugal): Understanding mortuary practices and collective burials in Chalcolithic Portugal


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Resting in Peace or in Pieces? studies Tomb I, a tholos type structure found in the Perdigões Archaeological Complex (Évora, Portugal) from the first half of the 3rd millennium BC. The human bone sample (61926 bone fragments and 1579 teeth) found in Tomb I was highly fragmented and skeletonised elements were found completely disarticulated. This book takes a twofold approach to the study of the skeletal sample from Tomb I. The monument is studied according to the archaeological phases defined during field work, which explains the possible differentiated uses of the tomb through time. The skeletal sample is then studied as a whole, regardless of phases of use. Lucy Shaw Evangelista uses the data obtained to paleodemographically reconstruct the individuals buried in the tomb, comparing them with other funerary structures inside and outside the Perdigões ditched enclosures. This research broadens our understanding of mortuary practices and collective burials in Chalcolithic Portugal, situating it within the wider European Copper Age context.

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Author:   Lucy Shaw Evangelista ,  Leonardo García Sanjuán
Publisher:   BAR Publishing
Imprint:   BAR Publishing
Weight:   0.893kg
ISBN:  

9781407355306


ISBN 10:   1407355309
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   31 October 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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List of Figures List of Tables Abstract Foreword References 1. Introduction Structure of this book Background for funerary practices in Recent Prehistory in South Portugal Natural Caves Dolmens Hypogea Pits Tholoi-type Structures Ditched Enclosures Ditched enclosures and funerary practices in Southwest Iberia 2. Archaeological context of the osteological sample: Perdigões Enclosures and Tomb I Formalized funerary structures in Perdigões: Pit burials Tholoi-type Structures on the Eastern side of the Enclosures Tomb I Tomb II Tomb IV Non-Formalised Funerary Practices 3. Materials The sample From death to fossilization: the effect of taphonomy on the human remains from Tomb I Intrinsic Factors Extrinsic Factors 4. Methods Field Work Laboratory work 5. Results Per-phase study of Tomb I (Chamber) Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 2A Phase 2B Phase 2C Phase 2D Phase 3 Phase 3A Phase 3B Phase 3C Phase 4 Phase 4A Phase 4B Non-Referenced Bones Atrium Tomb I Total Results Afterword: One Tomb, two different approaches 6. Discussing Tomb I Fragmentation Minimum Number of Individuals Paleodemography Paleomorphology Metric Analysis Non-Metric Analysis Paleopathology Oral Pathology Articular Degenerative Pathology Enthesopathies Other Pathologies Bone representativeness and Funerary Practices 7. Resting in peace or in pieces? What is happening in enclosures? 8. Conclusion Limitations Bibliography

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Lucy Shaw Evangelista has worked as an archaeologist and physical anthropologist at Era Arqueologia since 1997. After a degree and Master's thesis in Prehistoric archaeology at the University of Porto (2004) she concluded her PhD in Physical Anthropology at the University of Coimbra (2018). Her research focuses on funerary practices and architectures amongst the Late Neolithic/Chalcolithic populations of SW Iberia.

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