Osteological Analysis of Two Contemporary Tombs from the San Giuliano Necropolis

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This is an abstract from the "Etruscan Centralization to Medieval Marginalization: Shifts in Settlement and Mortuary Traditions at San Giuliano, Italy" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This paper will describe and compare the skeletal remains recovered from two small Etruscan chamber tombs from the San Giuliano archeological complex in the Marturanum Park in the Lazio region of Italy. Both tombs, G13-001 and G12-060, are dated to the sixth century BCE using the rich ceramic assemblage that was recovered during field excavations from 2016 to 2018. The tombs have been extensively looted; however, the skeletal remains, although quite damaged and fragmented, had not been removed. Results from skeletal analyses including the MNI of the tombs will be discussed. In addition, human cremains were discovered in both tombs scattered throughout. The analyses and comparison of these cremains will be discussed in the context of amount, type, temperature, and cremation process. An intact cremation grave was also discovered just outside of the entrance to tomb G12-060 with a nearly complete red impasto vessel in the pit covered by a bucchero bowl. The contents of the vessel were removed in the laboratory and contained human cremains. These will be discussed in comparison to the scattered cremains from inside the tombs.

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• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• Etruscan Centralization to Medieval Marginalization: Shifts in Settlement and Mortuary Traditions at San Giuliano, Italy

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Abstract Id(s): 32373