Anthropology 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Enamel Hypoplasia, Bioarchaeology, Anemia
11 Dec 2015
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Week six: mortuary practices and the human skeleton. Look at two different things when studying the dead: mortuary practices, human skeleton. Male skeleton received burial treatment usually associated with woman. 1: mummification, secondary burial, cremation (1) interment/ inhumation. Body position: supine -laying on their back, prone- laying on their chest, flexed- when their knees are drawn up towards their head. Usually in places where natural mummification occurs: ex. Dry desert areas like peru, egypt warri mummy bundles, peru (3) secondary burial. Follows primary mortuary practices such as exposure. Bones buried after soft tissues are gone: bundle burial -when bones aren"t in correct anatomical position, and the bones have just been. Usually when it is found it is because someone has gathered the remains from cremation and place the remains in ceramic pottery and then it is buried bundled and buried. Early pagan cemeteries: cremations and inhumations, variable orientation, grave goods in elite burials.
