Cernavodă – Columbia D puzzle: the Skull Complex
Journal Title: MATERIALE SI CERCETARI ARHEOLOGICE - Year 2018, Vol 0, Issue 0
Abstract
This paper focuses on the re‐analysis of a feature from the Late Neolithic Hamangia cemetery at Cernavodă – Columbia D (Constanţa County,Romania), excavated at the middle of the last century. The analysis took place in several stages: processing of archaeological information, anthropological re‐evaluation, combination of the two sets of data, and interpretation. The sample of the re‐analysed human osteological material includes 11 fragmentary crania and several dozens of other cranial and postcranial remains. Two of the crania present interesting characteristics: one was cut, broken, with a postmortem trepanation, and was polished, while the other bears the traces of a benign tumoral cyst. Another skull fragment bears traces of postmortem burning. In addition to human remains, this feature yielded a pig mandible, freshwater mussel shells, a bolder, a pottery sherd and a fragment of a stalactite/stalagmite. Lucrarea este concentrată pe reanalizarea unui complex din cimitirul neolitic Hamangia de la Cernavodă – Columbia D (jud. Constanţa, România), cercetat arheologic la mijlocul secolului trecut. Analiza a parcurs mai multe etape: procesarea informaţiilor arheologice, reevaluarea antropologică, combinarea şi interpretarea celor două seturi de date. Eşantionul scheletic uman re‐analizat este format din 11 calote craniene şi alte câteva zeci de resturi craniene șI postcraniene. Două calote prezintă caracteristici deosebite; una a fost decalotată, ruptă, trepanată postmortem şi şlefuită, iar alta prezintă urmele unui chist benign tumoral. La acestea adăugăm un fragment cranian cu urme de arsură (incinerare postmortem). Pe lângă resturi scheletice umane, complexul a conţinut şi o mandibulă de porc, scoici de apă dulce, o piatră, un fragment ceramic şi un fragment de stalagmită/stalactită.
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Raluca Kogălniceanu, Angela Simalcsik
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