Vortrag auf Einladung des Arbeitskreises Osteoarchäologie und Evolutionäre Anthropologie:
Participating in archaeological excavations provides anthropologists with a unique
opportunity to gain expertise in various fieldwork tasks related to human remains and their
contexts. This hands-on experience involves a specialized learning process to identify the
details needed to understand funerary practices or biological changes that bones can indicate.
Gaining this perspective not only benefits future anthropological analyses but also introduces
anthropologists into archaeological problems and methods, especially regarding burial
contexts. Over the past two decades, as methods from various fields of
anthropology - including archaeothanatology, forensic science, and taphonomy - have
increasingly converged, these practical experiences have laid a strong foundation for ongoing
growth and development. The rapid advancement of field recording techniques, in both
archaeological and forensic fields, has also opened new opportunities for understanding
ancient mortuary practices.
The presentation aims to provide insight into this workflow by offering a framework to view
human burials not only as a static time capsule but also as a window into the biological
processes and cultural motives of the people who once lived and formed them.
It might motivate archaeologists and others interested in bioarchaeology to consider how we
can use field experience more widely in planning and preparing analyses, as well as in
developing project ideas and interpretations. All these serve as starting points that can help
foster closer collaboration with archaeological teams and other scientific disciplines to create
targeted research questions.
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