The postmortem exposure interval of an Iron Age human bone assemblage from Alken Enge, Denmark

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 819-827 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lene Mollerup ◽  
Anna Katarina Ejgreen Tjellden ◽  
Ejvind Hertz ◽  
Mads Kähler Holst
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Human Bone ◽  
Exposure Interval

The pattern of human bone dissolution-A histological study of Iron Age warriors from a Danish wetland site

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 407-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.K.E. Tjelldén ◽  
S.M. Kristiansen ◽  
H. Birkedal ◽  
M.M.E. Jans
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Histological Study ◽  
Human Bone ◽  
Wetland Site

Defining the Individual

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niall Sharples
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Soil Layer ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
Human Bone ◽  
Cultural Tradition ◽  
Left Femur ◽  
Southern England ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Individual

During the 1985 excavation at Maiden Castle (Sharples 1991a), a large grain storage pit cut into the back of the rampart of the Early Iron Age hillfort was excavated. About half way down the fill of that pit the left femur of a mature adult was exposed. This bone was lying in a relatively sterile soil layer and it was not marked by any special finds or careful constructions; in many respects it could easily be dismissed as a discovery with little significance. Fifty years ago such bones would have been regarded as accidental losses, simply rubbish conveniently disposed of in a handy receptacle. It could be an indication that excarnation was the general means of disposal and that this occurred close to or actually inside settlements, but it might also indicate the accidental disturbance of human remains in graves located at the hillfort. In recent years we have come to understand that these deposits are much more significant. A number of archaeologists (Whimster 1981; C. Wilson 1981; Cunliffe 1992) came to realize that the presence of human remains on Iron Age settlements was a distinct cultural tradition characteristic of central southern England. The work of J. D. Hill (1995b) has enhanced our understanding of this phenomenon by emphasizing that the deposition of human remains is part of a complex suite of actions which involves the arrangement of different categories of material in carefully placed deposits. The process of deposition was clearly intimately involved in the definition of social relationships in the Iron Age of central southern England. It is difficult to imagine that if we, as archaeologists, could immediately recognize a human bone, our ancient pit diggers could not. The placement of this bone was a deliberate act, and the location of this deposit was carefully chosen. Hill (1995b) has shown that these pit deposits were carefully structured. Human remains are normally found in layers that are largely sterile, but a pit chosen for the deposition of human bone will normally have fills containing other carefully selected deposits. These mark the pit as a bank of socially constructed material.

Iron Age inhumation burials at Yarnton, Oxfordshire

Antiquity ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 73 (281) ◽  
pp. 551-562 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gill Hey ◽  
Alex Bayliss ◽  
Angela Boyle
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Human Bone ◽  
Common Part ◽  
Burial Practice ◽  
Middle Iron Age

Radiocarbon dating of unaccompanied skeletons discovered during the excavation of an Iron Age, Roman and Saxon settlement at Yarnton, Oxfordshire, unexpectedly revealed the presence of a middle Iron Age cemetery (3rd or 4th century cal BC). British Iron Age burials before the 1st century BC are usually found as individuals, often in pits on settlement sites, or are repersented by disarticulated human bone. This paper explores whether cemeteries were a more common part of Iron Age burial practice than hitherto believed, or whether the Yarnton burials were a highly unusual and localized phenomenon? It highlights the merits of obtaining radiocarbon determinations on otherwise undated burials.

scholarly journals Stable isotopes and diet: their contribution to Romano-British research

Antiquity ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 87 (335) ◽  
pp. 137-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gundula Müldner
Keyword(s):  
Stable Isotopes ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Nitrogen Isotope ◽  
The State ◽  
Human Bone ◽  
Roman Britain ◽  
Carbon And Nitrogen ◽  
Standard Response ◽  
British Research

The study of stable isotopes surviving in human bone is fast becoming a standard response in the analysis of cemeteries. Reviewing the state of the art for Roman Britain, the author shows clear indications of a change in diet (for the better) following the Romanisation of Iron Age Britain—including more seafood, and more nutritional variety in the towns. While samples from the bones report an average of diet over the years leading up to an individual's death, carbon and nitrogen isotope signatures taken from the teeth may have a biographical element—capturing those childhood dinners. In this way migrants have been detected—as in the likely presence of Africans in Roman York. While not unexpected, these results show the increasing power of stable isotopes to comment on populations subject to demographic pressures of every kind.

scholarly journals New Radiocarbon Dates and a Review of the Chronology of Prehistoric Populations from the Minusinsk Basin, Southern Siberia, Russia

Radiocarbon ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 243-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svetlana V Svyatko ◽  
James P Mallory ◽  
Eileen M Murphy ◽  
Andrey V Polyakov ◽  
Paula J Reimer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Human Bone ◽  
Early Iron Age ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Southern Siberia ◽  
Minusinsk Basin

The results are presented of a new program of radiocarbon dating undertaken on 88 human skeletons. The individuals derived from Eneolithic to Early Iron Age sites—Afanasievo, Okunevo, Andronovo (Fedorovo), Karasuk, and Tagar cultures—in the Minusinsk Basin of Southern Siberia. All the new dates have been acquired from human bone, which is in contrast to some of the previous dates for this region obtained from wood and thus possibly unreliable due to old-wood effects or re-use of the timber. The new data are compared with the existing14C chronology for the region, thereby enabling a clearer understanding to be gained concerning the chronology of these cultures and their place within the prehistory of the Eurasian steppes.

scholarly journals Stable Isotope and Radiocarbon Analysis for Diet, Climate and Mobility Reconstruction in Agras (Early Iron Age) and Edessa (Roman Age), Northern Greece

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 498
Author(s):  
Elissavet Dotsika ◽  
Maria Tassi ◽  
Petros Karalis ◽  
Anastasia Chrysostomou ◽  
Dimitra Ermioni Michael ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Isotopic Analysis ◽  
Oxygen Isotopic Composition ◽  
Human Bone ◽  
Bone Collagen ◽  
Early Iron Age ◽  
Northern Greece ◽  
Oxygen Isotopic ◽  
Roman Age ◽  
Bone Apatite

In this article we present an isotopic analysis of human bone collagen (δ13Ccol, and δ15Ncol) and bone apatite (δ13C) for diet reconstruction, as well as δ18Oap of human bone apatite for climate reconstruction, using samples from Northern Greece. Radiocarbon dating analysis was conducted on three of the Agras samples and the results (from 1000 to 800 BC) correspond to the Early Iron Age. Isotopic values for δ13Ccol range from −20.5‰ to −16‰ and for δ15Ncol from 6‰ to 11.1‰—a strong indication of a C3-based diet, with contributions by C4 and freshwater fish elements. The results were compared to the ones from Roman Edessa, and Alexandreia (a contemporary city near Edessa), as well as to other Early Iron sites in Greece and wider Europe. In general, the results from Agras are in good agreement with the results from Northern Greece, with the exception of the Makriyalos site, and are quite close to those of Croatia’s and Hungary’s sites. Additionally, from the δ18Oap results we calculated the oxygen isotopic composition of consumed water for Agras (from −9.6‰ to −10.9‰) and for Roman Edessa (from −9.6‰ to −11.2‰) for the palaeoclimate and palaeomobility reconstruction.

The human bone marrow (BM) niche in acute leukaemia

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
D Pal ◽  
H Blair ◽  
S Boyd ◽  
P Bakelis ◽  
A Elder ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bone Marrow ◽  
Acute Leukaemia ◽  
Human Bone ◽  
Human Bone Marrow ◽  
Bm Niche
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