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Deviant burials and social identity in a postmedieval Polish cemetery: An analysis of stable oxygen and carbon isotopes from the "vampires" of Drawsko.

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العنوان: Deviant burials and social identity in a postmedieval Polish cemetery: An analysis of stable oxygen and carbon isotopes from the "vampires" of Drawsko.
المؤلفون: Gregoricka LA; Department of Sociology, Anthropology, & Social Work, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, 36688., Scott AB; Department of Anthropology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, E3B 5A3, Canada., Betsinger TK; Department of Anthropology, SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta, New York, 13820, USA., Polcyn M; Department of Anthropology, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON, P7B 5E1, Canada.
المصدر: American journal of physical anthropology [Am J Phys Anthropol] 2017 Aug; Vol. 163 (4), pp. 741-758. Date of Electronic Publication: 2017 May 12.
نوع المنشور: Historical Article; Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
اللغة: English
بيانات الدورية: Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 0400654 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1096-8644 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00029483 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Am J Phys Anthropol Subsets: MEDLINE
أسماء مطبوعة: Publication: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell
Original Publication: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley
مواضيع طبية MeSH: Burial/*history , Carbon Isotopes/*analysis , Legendary Creatures/*history , Oxygen Isotopes/*analysis, Adolescent ; Adult ; Breast Feeding ; Dental Enamel/chemistry ; Diet/ethnology ; Female ; History, 17th Century ; History, 18th Century ; History, Medieval ; Human Migration ; Humans ; Male ; Poland/ethnology ; Young Adult
مستخلص: Objectives: Deviant burials can reveal important information about both social and individual identity, particularly when the mortuary record is supplemented by an examination of skeletal remains. At the postmedieval (17th to 18th c. AD) cemetery of Drawsko (Site 1), Poland, six individuals (of n = 285) received deviant, anti-vampiristic mortuary treatment. A previous study using radiogenic strontium isotope ratios ( x¯= 0.7112 ± 0.0006, 1σ, n = 60) found that these "vampires" were in fact locals, not migrants to the region targeted for deviant burial due to their status as immigrant outsiders. However, considerable geologic overlap in strontium isotope ratios across the North European Plain may have masked the identification of at least some nonlocal individuals. This study further contextualizes strontium isotope ratios using additional biogeochemical data to test the hypothesis that additional nonlocals were present in the Drawsko cemetery.
Methods: Stable oxygen and carbon isotopes from the dental enamel of 58 individuals interred in both normative and atypical burials at Drawsko were analyzed.
Results: Both δ 18 O c(VPDB) ( x¯= -4.5 ± 0.7‰) and δ 13 C ap isotope values ( x¯= -13.6 ± 0.8‰) displayed little variability and were not significantly different between vampire and normative burials, supporting prior strontium results of a largely local population. Nevertheless, homogeneity in oxygen isotope values across other northern European sites makes it difficult to speculate about isotopic regional diversity, leaving open the possibility that additional migrants to the region remain undetected. Additionally, carbon isotope values point to a locally sourced diet dominated by C 3 resources but with some supplementation by C 4 goods that likely included millet, fitting with historic descriptions of postmedieval diet in Poland.
Conclusions: Those interred as vampires appear local to the region and thus likely underwent deviant funerary treatment due to some other social stigma not apparent from the skeleton.
(© 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.)
فهرسة مساهمة: Keywords: carbon isotopes; deviant burials; oxygen isotopes; residential mobility; social identity
المشرفين على المادة: 0 (Carbon Isotopes)
0 (Oxygen Isotopes)
تواريخ الأحداث: Date Created: 20170513 Date Completed: 20170822 Latest Revision: 20180214
رمز التحديث: 20231215
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.23244
PMID: 28497872
قاعدة البيانات: MEDLINE
الوصف
تدمد:1096-8644
DOI:10.1002/ajpa.23244