Results of Archaeological-Anthropological Studies of Mass Burials in Viminacium — Grave G-769 / The Pećine Necropolis
Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: Archaeology and Science 11 (2015) Golubović and Mikić -Results of Archaeological... (155)(156)(157)(158)(159)(160)(161)(162)(163)(164)(165) During spring campaign of 1981, at the site of Pećine (Map.1), in the northern part of trench 185, a group of human and animal bones was examined and conditionally marked as grave G-769 (Fig. 1) 1 .The bones were discovered at a depth of 0.50 m down to a depth of 0.90 m.They covered an area of 2 m2 that was inclined from the east to the west.There were 25 human skulls all together, partially fragmented and deformed, due soil settling.The skulls were marked with the letters A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, LJ, M, N, 1 The article results from the project: Viminacium, Roman city and military camp -research of material and non-material culture of inhabitants by using the modern technologies of remote detection, geophysics, GIS, digitalization and 3D visualization (no 47018), funded by The Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia.* This paper is the third of its kind, about archaeological-anthropological analyses of mass burials excavated in Viminacium during the 20th century.O, P, R, S, T, U, V, W, X and Y. Three mandibles were discovered and a larger number of skull fragments.Apart from the skulls, there were about thirty fragments of long bones.Among the animal bones, there were 17 horse long bones, 12 cattle bones and a dog's skull.In the eastern part of the area, apart from the bones, there were also brick and stone fragments and pottery shards. 2 ANTHROPOLOGICAL FINDS AND PROCESSING METHODDefi ned as a mass grave, G-769 contained a secondary burial of 25 skulls.During anthropological research of these 25 skulls, some human osteological material was also separated.These 2
Source: Arheologija i prirodne nauke
Authors: Snežana Golubović, Živko Mikić
Language: English
Subfield: Archeology (arts and humanities)
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W3139801882