Burned bones, science and theory : how they can be combined to understand the cremation settings in the archaeological context?
- Author
- Elisavet Stamataki, Ioannis Kontopoulos, Kevin Salesse, Barbara Veselka, Charlotte Sabaux, Sarah Dalle, Marta Hlad, Amanda Sangelov, Guy De Mulder (UGent) and Christophe Snoeck
- Organization
- Abstract
- The study of burned human remains, is a major source of information to understand the way in which past societies faced, perceived and interacted with death. Despite the limitations that cremated bones present due to the structural, chemical and isotopic changes that occur to the inorganic fraction of bone (bone apatite) during burning, they play an increasingly important role in understanding pyre technology as well as body and pyre managements in ancient societies in which cremation was the dominant funerary practice. The aim of this study is to understand the way cremation was performed in the Metal Ages using a combination of archaeological theory and state-of-the-art analytical tools on burned human remains from Belgium. The lack of written sources from the Metal Age makes it challenging to approach questions related to the specialisation in the performance of funerary rituals and creates a gap in our understanding of funerary practices from a period where cremation was the dominant funerary rite. As a result, the combination between theory and science contributes to addressing not only questions about the body management and the cremation settings but also about who was managing the cremation ritual and what the skills and the specialisation of the cremator were.
Citation
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01HTHSWGJXS50PNAH045K529F7
- MLA
- Stamataki, Elisavet, et al. “Burned Bones, Science and Theory : How They Can Be Combined to Understand the Cremation Settings in the Archaeological Context?” 27th EAA Annual Meeting (Kiel Virtual, 2021) : Abstract Book, European Association of Archaeologists, 2021, pp. 782–782.
- APA
- Stamataki, E., Kontopoulos, I., Salesse, K., Veselka, B., Sabaux, C., Dalle, S., … Snoeck, C. (2021). Burned bones, science and theory : how they can be combined to understand the cremation settings in the archaeological context? 27th EAA Annual Meeting (Kiel Virtual, 2021) : Abstract Book, 782–782. European Association of Archaeologists.
- Chicago author-date
- Stamataki, Elisavet, Ioannis Kontopoulos, Kevin Salesse, Barbara Veselka, Charlotte Sabaux, Sarah Dalle, Marta Hlad, Amanda Sangelov, Guy De Mulder, and Christophe Snoeck. 2021. “Burned Bones, Science and Theory : How They Can Be Combined to Understand the Cremation Settings in the Archaeological Context?” In 27th EAA Annual Meeting (Kiel Virtual, 2021) : Abstract Book, 782–782. European Association of Archaeologists.
- Chicago author-date (all authors)
- Stamataki, Elisavet, Ioannis Kontopoulos, Kevin Salesse, Barbara Veselka, Charlotte Sabaux, Sarah Dalle, Marta Hlad, Amanda Sangelov, Guy De Mulder, and Christophe Snoeck. 2021. “Burned Bones, Science and Theory : How They Can Be Combined to Understand the Cremation Settings in the Archaeological Context?” In 27th EAA Annual Meeting (Kiel Virtual, 2021) : Abstract Book, 782–782. European Association of Archaeologists.
- Vancouver
- 1.Stamataki E, Kontopoulos I, Salesse K, Veselka B, Sabaux C, Dalle S, et al. Burned bones, science and theory : how they can be combined to understand the cremation settings in the archaeological context? In: 27th EAA Annual Meeting (Kiel Virtual, 2021) : Abstract Book. European Association of Archaeologists; 2021. p. 782–782.
- IEEE
- [1]E. Stamataki et al., “Burned bones, science and theory : how they can be combined to understand the cremation settings in the archaeological context?,” in 27th EAA Annual Meeting (Kiel Virtual, 2021) : Abstract Book, Online (Kiel, Germany), 2021, pp. 782–782.
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abstract = {{ The study of burned human remains, is a major source of information to understand the way in which past societies faced, perceived and interacted with death. Despite the limitations that cremated bones present due to the structural, chemical and isotopic changes that occur to the inorganic fraction of bone (bone apatite) during burning, they play an increasingly important role in understanding pyre technology as well as body and pyre managements in ancient societies in which cremation was the dominant funerary practice. The aim of this study is to understand the way cremation was performed in the Metal Ages using a combination of archaeological theory and state-of-the-art analytical tools on burned human remains from Belgium. The lack of written sources from the Metal Age makes it challenging to approach questions related to the specialisation in the performance of funerary rituals and creates a gap in our understanding of funerary practices from a period where cremation was the dominant funerary rite. As a result, the combination between theory and science contributes to addressing not only questions about the body management and the cremation settings but also about who was managing the cremation ritual and what the skills and the specialisation of the cremator were.}},
author = {{Stamataki, Elisavet and Kontopoulos, Ioannis and Salesse, Kevin and Veselka, Barbara and Sabaux, Charlotte and Dalle, Sarah and Hlad, Marta and Sangelov, Amanda and De Mulder, Guy and Snoeck, Christophe}},
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title = {{Burned bones, science and theory : how they can be combined to understand the cremation settings in the archaeological context?}},
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year = {{2021}},
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