Sepolture di prestigio nel bacino mediterraneo (secoli IV-IX). Definizione, immagini, utilizzo 2. Poster. Atti del convegno, Pella (NO), 28-30 giugno 2017, a cura di Paolo de Vingo, Yuri A. Marano, Joan Pinar Gil, Firenze, 2021
L’articolo presenta i risultati di una nuova analisi del materiale osteologico rinvenuto attorno ... more L’articolo presenta i risultati di una nuova analisi del materiale osteologico rinvenuto attorno alla chiesa di S. Martino presso Castel Drena (Trento). Il cimitero, portato alla luce negli anni Ottanta del XX secolo, risulta suddiviso in due aree, un terrapieno e una tomba-ossario. Articolazione originale e tempi di sfruttamento dell’area sepolcrale rimangono difficili da stabilire, sebbene come probabili limiti temporali d’uso si possano indicare la fine dell’VIII secolo e la fine del XII. Lo studio offre per la prima volta conteggio e catalogazione completi dei resti (riconducibili a 42 individui, dei quali la maggioranza è risultata di sesso maschile) e una loro analisi antropologica. Nel corso dell’indagine è emersa la sepoltura singola di un maschio adulto che per la posizione sub stillicidio e le caratteristiche della tomba e dei resti può essere segnalata come privilegiata. Particolarmente significativi sono i segni di un colpo da fendente sul cranio del soggetto a cui lo stesso sopravvisse. Nel loro complesso i dati raccolti fanno pensare ad una comunità coesa di combattenti, affiancati da donne e bambini di origine forse diversa, in cui l’individuo rinvenuto in sepoltura privilegiata avrebbe avuto un ruolo eminente per funzione rivestita o meriti acquisiti.
In this paper a new analysis of the human skeletal remains recovered from the Medieval cemetery of Castle Drena (Trento, north Italy) is presented. The terminus post quem for the cemetery (excavated in the 1980s) was established archaeologically as around the 8th century AD and the terminus ante quem set around the end of the 12th. The data show a high proportion of infants (age at death <6), and a high proportion of men in the sample of 42 burials. Our new analysis of a middle-aged adult male, considered as privileged for his burial position, offers evidence of a slash wound on the skull, which he survived. The privileged burial position could be related to some military achievements.
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In this paper a new analysis of the human skeletal remains recovered from the Medieval cemetery of Castle Drena (Trento, north Italy) is presented. The terminus post quem for the cemetery (excavated in the 1980s) was established archaeologically as around the 8th century AD and the terminus ante quem set around the end of the 12th. The data show a high proportion of infants (age at death <6), and a high proportion of men in the sample of 42 burials. Our new analysis of a middle-aged adult male, considered as privileged for his burial position, offers evidence of a slash wound on the skull, which he survived. The privileged burial position could be related to some military achievements.
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