The well-known site of the Late Copper Age at Velturno-Tanzgasse (middle Val d’Isarco, Bolzano) (dated between ca. 2580 and 2350 cal. BC) was excavated since 1983. Th e excavations brought to light large samples of human and animals remains, mostly burnt, mainly related to a large structured area of ritual and funeral function interpreted as secondary burial place of cremated individuals. Th ese human remains are also associated to animal remains which presumably documented ceremonial off ering activities. Th e characteristics of the bones - strongly burnt and fr agmented – justify a study approached even on the microscope on thin sections for the identifi cation of the histological human or no human patt erns. Th e histological study of the stiff tissue contributes to our identifying of human and animal remains, that couldn’t be identifi ed following the traditional methods used in the Zooarchaeology discipline.
Durante le campagne di scavo (dal 1983) nel sito cerimoniale e funerario della tarda età del Rame di Velturno-Tanzgasse (Bolzano) (tra ca. 2580 e 2350 cal. BC) sono stati raccolti resti umani e faunistici per lo più carbonizzati, principalmente connessi all’uso di un’area strutt urata adibita a luogo cerimoniale e di sepoltura secondaria di incinerati. I resti umani sono associati a resti animali che documentano presumibilmente att ività di off erta. Le caratt eristiche del materiale osteologico, calcinato e fortemente frammentato, motivano un approccio anche microscopico. L’indagine istologica del tessuto compatt o contribuisce a discriminare resti umani e resti animali altrimenti non determinabili.
Analisi archeologica, antropologica e istologica di resti cremati provenienti dai livelli dell’età del Rame di Velturno-Tanzgasse (BZ) = Archaeozoological, anthropological and histological analysis of cremated bones fr om the Copper Age levels of Velturno-Tanzgasse (BZ) / A. Conzato, J. Rizzi, U. Tecchiati - In: Convegno nazionale di archeozoologia. 6 / [a cura di] J. De Grossi Mazzorin, D. Saccà, C. Tozzi. - Lecce : Associazione Italiana di Archeozoologia, 2012. - ISBN 8890683201. - pp. 131-136 (( Intervento presentato al 6. convegno Convegno Nazionale di Archeozoologia tenutosi a San Romano in Garfagnana nel 2009.
Analisi archeologica, antropologica e istologica di resti cremati provenienti dai livelli dell’età del Rame di Velturno-Tanzgasse (BZ) = Archaeozoological, anthropological and histological analysis of cremated bones fr om the Copper Age levels of Velturno-Tanzgasse (BZ)
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The well-known site of the Late Copper Age at Velturno-Tanzgasse (middle Val d’Isarco, Bolzano) (dated between ca. 2580 and 2350 cal. BC) was excavated since 1983. Th e excavations brought to light large samples of human and animals remains, mostly burnt, mainly related to a large structured area of ritual and funeral function interpreted as secondary burial place of cremated individuals. Th ese human remains are also associated to animal remains which presumably documented ceremonial off ering activities. Th e characteristics of the bones - strongly burnt and fr agmented – justify a study approached even on the microscope on thin sections for the identifi cation of the histological human or no human patt erns. Th e histological study of the stiff tissue contributes to our identifying of human and animal remains, that couldn’t be identifi ed following the traditional methods used in the Zooarchaeology discipline.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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