Mortuary programmes and bioarchaeology of the Danube Gorges Mesolithic foragers in the central Balkans
1 : Columbia University in the City of New York
1161 Amsterdam Avenue, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027 -
États-Unis
2 : Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna
3 : DANTE - Diet and Ancient Technology laboratory, Sapienza University or Rome
(Sapienza University)
4 : Department of Anthropolgy
University of Wisconsin-Madison -
États-Unis
5 : Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome
6 : Section of Bioarchaeology, National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography "Luigi Pigorini", Museum of Civilizations, Rome
7 : Institute of Archaeology
Belgrade -
Serbie
The paper reviews mortuary programmes and bioarchaeological aspects of the Mesolithic forager populations in the Danube Gorges of the central Balkans. A large number of skeletal remains in the excess of 500 individuals were found at a dozen of sites located along the Danube in this region on the Romanian and Serbian banks of the river. A large suite of now available aDNA genome-wide data, multi-isotope data, including carbon, nitrogen, sulphur, and strontium, along with data on sex and age profiles, dental calculus, tooth wear and microstructure, paleopathology, and musculoskeletal stress markers allow for fine-tuned reconstructions of human physical plasticity in this key European Mesolithic hotspot.
| Subject : | : | Oral presentations |
| Topics | : | Session: Reconstructing the life histories of people, animals and things in Mesolithic funerary archaeology |
| Keywords | : | stable isotopes ; aDNA ; bioarchaeology ; mortuary programmes |
| PDF version | : |  PDF version |
