The skeletal remains from Umm an-Nar tomb QA 1-1: spatial distribution and anthropological analysis

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Titre
The skeletal remains from Umm an-Nar tomb QA 1-1: spatial distribution and anthropological analysis
Sujet
Archéologie -- Oman
Résumé
Collective aboveground circular tombs of stone are one of the main categories of architectural structures from the Umm an-Nar period (2500–2000 BC) in the Oman peninsula. The tombs have been known since the late 1950s but various aspects of their functioning still await a full explanation. Most of them survived in poor condition, often empty, only a dozen or so actually yielding any human remains. Tomb QA 1-1, one of ten Umm an-Nar-type tombs at Wadi al-Fajj in northwestern Oman, has yielded a substantial assemblage of human skeletal remains (estimated MNI 25) from the two of four burial chambers excavated between 2016 and 2018. While the excavation of the tomb should be continued, a presentation of the bone assemblage recovered to date, including a distribution analysis of the remains, deposition characteristic, and preliminary osteological analysis, adds to the existing source base of Early Bronze Age populations in the ancient land of Magan.
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Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean
volume
30
numéro
2
pages
103-128
Date
2021
Langue
eng
doi
10.31338/uw.2083-537X.pam30.2.27

Rutkowski, Łukasz et Parol, Marta, “The skeletal remains from Umm an-Nar tomb QA 1-1: spatial distribution and anthropological analysis”, 2021, bibliographie, consulté le 21 décembre 2024, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/24687

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