anthropology Archive
4 Mar 2015
TYPES OF GRAVES IN THE SANISERA NECROPOLIS
During the V-VI centuries AD, Christianity was spread throughout the peninsula and the Balearic Islands. Therefore, the necropolis of Sanisera shows the funeral ritual of that time. We were talking about it in an other post. We
31 Jan 2015
About the funerary ritual of Sanisera’s Necropolis
The majority of the tombs in Sanisera’s Necropolis (Minorca – Balearic Islands – Spain) are collective. This means that the tombs were used to bury several people from the same family or group. In late antiquity, after
16 Jan 2015
CLEANING AND RESTORATION OF A SKULL FROM THE NECROPOLIS 4 AT SANISERA ARCHAEOLOGY INSTITUTE
By Fernando Contreras On 16 January 2015 In Archaeo News, Articles, Digging Remains Of Cities, Finds, Necropolis
During the excavation process, cleaning and inventory of excavated human remains at Sanisera Archaeology Institute some changes take place and they must be solved by anthropologists. Remains buried over 1500 years ago are now exposed and manipulated
12 Jan 2015
HAIR PINS FOUND AT THE ROMAN CITY OF SANISERA FIELD SCHOOL
By Fernando Contreras On 12 January 2015 In Archaeo News, Articles, Digging Remains Of Cities, Finds
Roman women had different ways to style hair, something which changed over the centuries depending on the fashion followed by the aristocracy in Roman Empire times. Our students found some examples during the campaigns in the Roman city of
15 Dec 2014
EXCAVATION OF ROMAN PORT CITY OF SANITJA, BY MARTIN HORNE
By Fernando Contreras On 15 December 2014 In Archaeo News, Articles, Digging Remains Of Cities, Finds
Martin Horne, one of students that have learned archeology in our field school (Sanisera Archaeology Institute), has written an interesting project about the excavation of the Roman Port City of Sanitja. We are particularly pleased that people who
4 Jul 2014
THE IMPORTANCE OF ADVANCED OSTEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS by Colleen Cummings
Archaeology is an old discipline, but osteoarchaeology – the in depth study of archaeological human bone – is relatively new. For most of the history of archaeological research, when human bones were found in excavation they were
14 Jun 2014
BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL AND PALAEOPATHOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE “Las Huertas Necropolis” (Seville, Spain) by Julie Thomas
In 2013, bioarchaeology students from The Sanisera Field School, under the guidance of physical anthropologists, Julie Thomas conducted an in-depth bioarchaeological and palaeopathological investigation of the Las Huertas Necropolis. This 5th-7th Century Christian skeletal assemblage, housed at
15 May 2014
WHAT WAS THE ROMAN POPULATION OF SANISERA LIKE?
During the 2013 campaign, The Sanisera Field School excavated a total of 10 tombs from the group called “Necropolis 4″, located at the Roman site of Sanisera. They dated between V-VI centuries AD and contain fifty-four individuals
5 Dec 2013
Great experience at the Sanisera Field School, by Louise Valmoria
Hello to everyone at the Sanisera Field School, particularly Fernando, Carmen and Cesar! Now that I am safely back home in Australia and well and truly settled back into things I just wanted to drop you a
27 Sep 2013
Julie Thomas discusses the Palaeopathology of an Exceptional Tomb 21
In 1985, archaeologists found an unusual cist tomb while salvaging Las Huertas, a 5th to 7th Century necropolis in La Roda de Andalucía, Spain (Guerrero Misa and Ventura Martinez, 1985: 334). Four large pieces of limestone covered
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