Taken Too Soon: The Context of Two Child Burials at the Mesolithic Shell Midden of Cabeço da Amoreira (Muge, Portugal)

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Close to 160 years of investigation at the Muge shell middens (Central Portugal) have revealed more than 300 Mesolithic human skeletons. Most of these burials were identified during the earliest excavations, and thus most of them have insoluble problems of associated materials, provenance, stratigraphy, and chronology. Since 2008 our team has been developing new work at Cabeço da Amoreira, one of the largest shell middens in the region, from where we recovered, using modern geoarchaeological techniques, a series of new burials, and new types of data that allow a more detailed reconstruction of these burials.

This poster will present new data on the context of two child burials recovered from two different areas of the site, focusing not only on the bioanthropological details but mostly on the sedimentary contexts and the relationship with other archaeological features identified at the site.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 37668.0