ABSTRACTDisarticulated human remains were recovered from a first-century fort ditch at Vindolanda... more ABSTRACTDisarticulated human remains were recovered from a first-century fort ditch at Vindolanda on the north-west frontier of the Roman Empire. Ancient DNA analysis revealed the skeleton to be that of a male individual and forensic taphonomic analysis suggested a primary deposition of the body in a waterlogged environment with no obvious evidence of formal burial. Occurrences of disarticulated human remains outside a cemetery context are often overlooked in Roman bioarchaeology. This discovery adds to the growing body of literature regarding alternative funerary practice in the Empire, highlighting that the concept of burial and disposal of the dead is more complex than ancient historical sources suggest. Details of the DNA analysis are provided in the Supplementary Material available at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X1900014X.
Hill claims to write on behalf of the former and Turney claims to write on behalf of the latter. ... more Hill claims to write on behalf of the former and Turney claims to write on behalf of the latter. The problem we have with the substance and tone of this debate is the unwillingness of either participant to reflect critically on the presuppositions of their own professional and personal locations, and hence on their inevitable partisanship. This unwillingness fuels a subsequent failure to envisage a form of analysis in which the nature and consequences of occupying each position become empirical topics for inquiry rather than (as in the Hill–Turney exchange) normative ...
ABSTRACTDisarticulated human remains were recovered from a first-century fort ditch at Vindolanda... more ABSTRACTDisarticulated human remains were recovered from a first-century fort ditch at Vindolanda on the north-west frontier of the Roman Empire. Ancient DNA analysis revealed the skeleton to be that of a male individual and forensic taphonomic analysis suggested a primary deposition of the body in a waterlogged environment with no obvious evidence of formal burial. Occurrences of disarticulated human remains outside a cemetery context are often overlooked in Roman bioarchaeology. This discovery adds to the growing body of literature regarding alternative funerary practice in the Empire, highlighting that the concept of burial and disposal of the dead is more complex than ancient historical sources suggest. Details of the DNA analysis are provided in the Supplementary Material available at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X1900014X.
Hill claims to write on behalf of the former and Turney claims to write on behalf of the latter. ... more Hill claims to write on behalf of the former and Turney claims to write on behalf of the latter. The problem we have with the substance and tone of this debate is the unwillingness of either participant to reflect critically on the presuppositions of their own professional and personal locations, and hence on their inevitable partisanship. This unwillingness fuels a subsequent failure to envisage a form of analysis in which the nature and consequences of occupying each position become empirical topics for inquiry rather than (as in the Hill–Turney exchange) normative ...
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