La taphonomie des enfants de la classe 0–1 an en contexte archéologique, analyse des correspondances multiples
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- 作者：P. Cambra
- 刊名：Bulletins et M¨¦moires de la Soci¨¦t¨¦ d¡¯Anthropologie de Paris
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：April 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：28
- 期：1-2
- 页码：66-71
- 全文大小：1,154 KB
- 刊物主题：Evolutionary Biology; Human Genetics; Demography;
- 出版者：Springer Paris
- ISSN：1777-5469
- 卷排序：28
文摘
In palaeodemographic reconstructions, the small number of perinatal and infant subjects from cemeteries raises two questions: first on funeral practices around young children and especially on the precarious nature of their places of burial, and secondly on the state of preservation of their bones, which is directly related to the specific characteristics of their skeletons that result in dislocation of the bones and the disappearance of areas of ossification. The effects of the funerary architecture, whether preserved or not, and the traces of final treatments of the corpses, are also relevant to any discussion on the process of their decay.This study draws on a meticulous examination, in the laboratory, of four new-borns buried beneath curved terracotta roof tiles and on an analysis of the osteological data from plotting of skull details from Mediaeval burials of children excavated by V. Delattre [1] at Blandy-les-Tours in the Greater Paris region and of zenithal photographs of burial sites from Antiquity excavated by B. Farrago [2] at Saint-Remy-Montlouis, near Saintes in the Charente-Maritime region (W. France).The different states of preservation of the joints in burial contexts with evidence of funerary treatments of human remains were investigated by means of Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA). Regardless of the context of decay, the results are closely correlated with the type of joint but not with the treatments applied to the dead children’s bodies.KeywordsArchaeo-anthropologyTaphonomyInfant mortality