Knucklebones and Other Animal Deposits in the "Cruz del Negro" Necropolis

Possible Phoenician Funerary Rituals in SW Spain

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ID4697306
AutoresEloísa Bernáldez-Sánchez, Eloísa Bernáldez Sánchez (0000-0002-7467-2139, Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio Histórico), Esteban García-Viñas, Esteban García‐viña (0000-0002-8607-7505, Universidad Pablo de Olavide), Miguel Gamero-Esteban (Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio Histórico), Fernando Amores-Carredano (Universidad de Sevilla), Aurora Ocaña-García De Veas (Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio Histórico)
Ano2013
Volume48
Fascículo2
Páginas323-340
Data de publicação2013-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAnthropozoologica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0761-3032 • E-ISSN: 2107-0881
EditoraMuseum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5252/az2013n2a10
OpenAlexW2090081221
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas20

The “Cruz del Negro” necropolis in Carmona (Seville) is part of an archaeological site considered by some authors to be a Phoenician settlement. Findings from the paleobiological and taphonomic study conducted on the grave goods found in 38 funerary structures provide possible evidence to support this theory (along with other archaeological objects found there). Analysis of the animal remains found indicates three kinds of grave goods according to the animal species and anatomical parts offered, and points to a series of markers observed in other older sites located in the Mediterranean Basin which indicate the possible eastern origin of the funerary rituals practiced in “Cruz del Negro”. Of the 602 remains analysed, this study highlights the presence of 307 caprine (Caprinae) knucklebones in 15 of the 38 structures studied. Most of them are thermo-altered and highly polished, a practice originally found in Bronze Age sites in the Near East

Ancient history · Archaeology · Bronze · Bronze Age · Geography · Grave goods · Phoenician · Settlement (finance · Taphonomy · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · History