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JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE
卷 37, 期 5, 页码 901-909出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2009.11.020
关键词
Burial practices; Burnt bone; Cremation; Lapita; Vanuatu
资金
- Australian Research Council [DP0556874]
- Pacific Biological Foundation
- Department of Archaeology and Natural History and School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the ANU
- Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation Foundation
- Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund
- University of Otago Research Grant
- Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology at the University of Otago
- Education New Zealand Study Abroad Award
- Otago Anthropological Society OUSA
- Australian Research Council [DP0556874] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
Burnt human remains excavated from a scoop feature from a cemetery at Teouma, Vanuatu in the western Pacific (similar to 2850 BP) were examined to assess the nature of the deposit Possible scenarios explaining the reason the bone was burnt and Interred were assessed using osteological signatures taken from archaeological, experimental, and forensic studies The methodology of the study included recording color change, types of bone distortion, and element representation in conjunction with archaeological evidence The burnt and fragmented human bone (n = 430, fragments weighing 620 g) represents a single adult individual. Macroscopic evidence from the bone indicates the body had been fleshed or fresh at the time of burning and element representation follows a similar pattern to other burials excavated from the site Excluding burning, there was no evidence of human modification to the bone such as cut marks, percussion pits or pen mortem trauma suggestive of cannibalism. The archaeological evidence from the site indicates that the body had not been burnt in the place the remains were subsequently discovered The combined macroscopic and archaeological evidence strongly suggests that the human bone was burnt as a result of a deliberate cremation of an individual. If a conclusion of deliberate cremation is accepted, this research represents the first case of a Lapita period cremation and demonstrates how a combination of methods can explain the nature of an archaeological deposit of burnt human bone when the cause is not otherwise apparent (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
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