Communication invitée du thèmePratiques mortuaires et inférences socialesThe work of kinship: opportunities and challenges in inferring kinship from the remains of Neolithic mortuary practices
New ancient DNA and stable isotope analyses are radically transforming our ability to identify dietary patterns, mobility during life, and close biological relationships within mortuary populations from thousands of years ago. All of this provides new tools for an archaeology of kinship, which – in...
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Bulletins et mémoires de la société d’anthropologie de Paris
2023
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| Résumé: | New ancient DNA and stable isotope analyses are radically transforming our ability to identify dietary patterns, mobility during life, and close biological relationships within mortuary populations from thousands of years ago. All of this provides new tools for an archaeology of kinship, which – in combination with osteoarchaeology – can potentially reach outside the mortuary context to tell us about the lived experience of those who were chosen for burial. This provides new opportunities bu... |
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