Child burials in domestic contexts at an Iron Age hillfort: The Oppidum of Monte Bernorio (Villarén, Palencia)

The practice of child burials underneath house floors in the Late Prehistory has been considered a characteristic trait of the Iberian religion. However, this custom has also been documented in different archaeological sites both in the Mediterranean and Central Europe as well as Celtic areas of th...

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Autores principales:	Silvia Carnicero-Cáceres, Jesús F. Torres-Martínez
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Publicado:	Sociedad de Ciencias Aranzadi 2021
Materias:	osteoarcheology bioarcheology archeotanatology infant burials iron age osteoarqueología bioarqueología arqueotanatologia enterramientos infantiles edad del hierro Auxiliary sciences of history C Archaeology CC1-960
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:5232a62b37fb43c4b0efc10f6a70cf4d2021-11-29T13:20:42ZChild burials in domestic contexts at an Iron Age hillfort: The Oppidum of Monte Bernorio (Villarén, Palencia)10.21630/maa.2021.72.101132-22172172-4555https://doaj.org/article/5232a62b37fb43c4b0efc10f6a70cf4d2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.aranzadi.eus/fileadmin/docs/Munibe/maa.2021.72.10.pdfhttps://doaj.org/toc/1132-2217https://doaj.org/toc/2172-4555The practice of child burials underneath house floors in the Late Prehistory has been considered a characteristic trait of the Iberian religion. However, this custom has also been documented in different archaeological sites both in the Mediterranean and Central Europe as well as Celtic areas of the Iberian Peninsula, so we can explain this funerary practice by an Indo-European origin. We report the archeotanatological and osteoarcheological study of 10 subadults found in the Iron Age site of Monte Bernorio oppidum, the first archeological site in the western and central Cantabrian region with this funerary rite documented. It is the confirmation of both, the survival of an ancient funerary ritual, widely extended in all Europe, and its presence in the north of the Iberian Peninsula. We also review all the archeological sites in the Iberian Peninsula with similar archeological contexts and analyse the rite from the bioarcheology of the care.Silvia Carnicero-CáceresJesús F. Torres-MartínezSociedad de Ciencias Aranzadiarticleosteoarcheologybioarcheologyarcheotanatologyinfant burialsiron ageosteoarqueologíabioarqueologíaarqueotanatologiaenterramientos infantilesedad del hierroAuxiliary sciences of historyCArchaeologyCC1-960DEENESEUFRMunibe Antropologia-Arkeologia, Vol 72 (2021)
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topic	osteoarcheology bioarcheology archeotanatology infant burials iron age osteoarqueología bioarqueología arqueotanatologia enterramientos infantiles edad del hierro Auxiliary sciences of history C Archaeology CC1-960
spellingShingle	osteoarcheology bioarcheology archeotanatology infant burials iron age osteoarqueología bioarqueología arqueotanatologia enterramientos infantiles edad del hierro Auxiliary sciences of history C Archaeology CC1-960 Silvia Carnicero-Cáceres Jesús F. Torres-Martínez Child burials in domestic contexts at an Iron Age hillfort: The Oppidum of Monte Bernorio (Villarén, Palencia)
description	The practice of child burials underneath house floors in the Late Prehistory has been considered a characteristic trait of the Iberian religion. However, this custom has also been documented in different archaeological sites both in the Mediterranean and Central Europe as well as Celtic areas of the Iberian Peninsula, so we can explain this funerary practice by an Indo-European origin. We report the archeotanatological and osteoarcheological study of 10 subadults found in the Iron Age site of Monte Bernorio oppidum, the first archeological site in the western and central Cantabrian region with this funerary rite documented. It is the confirmation of both, the survival of an ancient funerary ritual, widely extended in all Europe, and its presence in the north of the Iberian Peninsula. We also review all the archeological sites in the Iberian Peninsula with similar archeological contexts and analyse the rite from the bioarcheology of the care.
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author	Silvia Carnicero-Cáceres Jesús F. Torres-Martínez
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title	Child burials in domestic contexts at an Iron Age hillfort: The Oppidum of Monte Bernorio (Villarén, Palencia)
title_short	Child burials in domestic contexts at an Iron Age hillfort: The Oppidum of Monte Bernorio (Villarén, Palencia)
title_full	Child burials in domestic contexts at an Iron Age hillfort: The Oppidum of Monte Bernorio (Villarén, Palencia)
title_fullStr	Child burials in domestic contexts at an Iron Age hillfort: The Oppidum of Monte Bernorio (Villarén, Palencia)
title_full_unstemmed	Child burials in domestic contexts at an Iron Age hillfort: The Oppidum of Monte Bernorio (Villarén, Palencia)
title_sort	child burials in domestic contexts at an iron age hillfort: the oppidum of monte bernorio (villarén, palencia)
publisher	Sociedad de Ciencias Aranzadi
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/5232a62b37fb43c4b0efc10f6a70cf4d
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Child burials in domestic contexts at an Iron Age hillfort: The Oppidum of Monte Bernorio (Villarén, Palencia)

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