The diversity of human mortuary practices and treatments in prehistory is widely recognised, but our understanding of the purpose and manner of corpse manipulation in many regions is limited. This article reports on unusual aspects of funerary archaeology at the Neolithic site of Dingsishan, southern China. Anatomical consideration of cutmarks on human bones and the positioning of bodies and body parts within burials suggests that mortuary treatments at this site included strategic and systematic disarticulation, evisceration and excarnation. Rather than signalling social differences, these practices may have resulted from the very practical need to save space.
{"title":"Disarticulation, evisceration and excarnation: Neolithic mortuary practices at Dingsishan, southern China","authors":"Ziqi Ye, Minghui Wang, Jay T. Stock, Fa-jun Li","doi":"10.15184/aqy.2024.57","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.57","url":null,"abstract":"The diversity of human mortuary practices and treatments in prehistory is widely recognised, but our understanding of the purpose and manner of corpse manipulation in many regions is limited. This article reports on unusual aspects of funerary archaeology at the Neolithic site of Dingsishan, southern China. Anatomical consideration of cutmarks on human bones and the positioning of bodies and body parts within burials suggests that mortuary treatments at this site included strategic and systematic disarticulation, evisceration and excarnation. Rather than signalling social differences, these practices may have resulted from the very practical need to save space.","PeriodicalId":502566,"journal":{"name":"Antiquity","volume":"96 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140695196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Richard Bussmann. 2023. The archaeology of pharaonic Egypt: society and culture, 2700–1700 BC. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-11070-303-81 hardback £100.","authors":"Rennan Lemos","doi":"10.15184/aqy.2024.51","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.51","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":502566,"journal":{"name":"Antiquity","volume":"49 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140699538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Alejandro Jiménez-Serrano. 2023. Descendants of a lesser god: regional power in Old and Middle Kingdom Egypt. Cairo/New York: The American University in Cairo Press; 978-1-649-03175-4 hardback 65$.","authors":"Christina Geisen","doi":"10.15184/aqy.2024.52","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.52","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":502566,"journal":{"name":"Antiquity","volume":"3 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140702446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Alejandro G. Sinner & Víctor Revilla Calvo (ed.). 2022. Religious dynamics in a microcontinent: cult places, identities and cultural change in Hispania (Archaeology of the Mediterranean World, vol. 1). Turnhout: Brepols; 978-2-503-59545-0 paperback €110.","authors":"Jesús García Sánchez","doi":"10.15184/aqy.2024.62","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.62","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":502566,"journal":{"name":"Antiquity","volume":"23 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140703232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"David V. Burley. 2023. The birth of Polynesia: an archaeological journey through the Kingdom of Tonga. Burnaby: Archaeology Press Simon Fraser University; 979-8-37847-48-2 hardback ₤39.49.","authors":"Frank R. Thomas","doi":"10.15184/aqy.2024.59","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.59","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":502566,"journal":{"name":"Antiquity","volume":"5 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140702856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xiaochen Pei, Yanpeng Cao, Yidi Yang, Chun Mun Liew, Chi Zhang, Ling Qin, Zhenhua Deng, Shuzheng Zhu, Yan Chen, Hao Zhao, Chao Ning, Mark J. Hudson, Ying Zhang, Hai Zhang
As an important component of prehistoric subsistence, an understanding of bone-working is essential for interpreting the evolution of early complex societies, yet worked bones are rarely systematically collected in China. Here, the authors apply multiple analytical methods to worked bones from the Longshan site of Pingliangtai, in central China, showing that Neolithic bone-working in this area, with cervid as the main raw material, was mature but localised, household-based and self-sufficient. The introduction of cattle in the Late Neolithic precipitated a shift in bone-working traditions but it was only later, in the Bronze Age, that cattle bones were utilised in a specialised fashion and dedicated bone-working industries emerged in urban centres.
{"title":"Bone-artefact production in late Neolithic central China: evidence from Pingliangtai","authors":"Xiaochen Pei, Yanpeng Cao, Yidi Yang, Chun Mun Liew, Chi Zhang, Ling Qin, Zhenhua Deng, Shuzheng Zhu, Yan Chen, Hao Zhao, Chao Ning, Mark J. Hudson, Ying Zhang, Hai Zhang","doi":"10.15184/aqy.2024.56","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.56","url":null,"abstract":"As an important component of prehistoric subsistence, an understanding of bone-working is essential for interpreting the evolution of early complex societies, yet worked bones are rarely systematically collected in China. Here, the authors apply multiple analytical methods to worked bones from the Longshan site of Pingliangtai, in central China, showing that Neolithic bone-working in this area, with cervid as the main raw material, was mature but localised, household-based and self-sufficient. The introduction of cattle in the Late Neolithic precipitated a shift in bone-working traditions but it was only later, in the Bronze Age, that cattle bones were utilised in a specialised fashion and dedicated bone-working industries emerged in urban centres.","PeriodicalId":502566,"journal":{"name":"Antiquity","volume":"48 13","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140701802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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