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An infant burial from Arma Veirana in northwestern Italy provides insights into funerary practices and female personhood in early Mesolithic Europe
العنوان: | An infant burial from Arma Veirana in northwestern Italy provides insights into funerary practices and female personhood in early Mesolithic Europe |
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المؤلفون: | Jamie Hodgkins, Caley M. Orr, Claudine Gravel-Miguel, Julien Riel-Salvatore, Christopher E. Miller, Luca Bondioli, Alessia Nava, Federico Lugli, Sahra Talamo, Mateja Hajdinjak, Emanuela Cristiani, Matteo Romandini, Dominique Meyer, Danylo Drohobytsky, Falko Kuester, Geneviève Pothier-Bouchard, Michael Buckley, Lucia Mancini, Fabio Baruffaldi, Sara Silvestrini, Simona Arrighi, Hannah M. Keller, Rocío Belén Griggs, Marco Peresani, David S. Strait, Stefano Benazzi, Fabio Negrino |
المصدر: | Scientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2021) |
بيانات النشر: | Nature Portfolio, 2021. |
سنة النشر: | 2021 |
المجموعة: | LCC:Medicine LCC:Science |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | Medicine, Science |
الوصف: | Abstract The evolution and development of human mortuary behaviors is of enormous cultural significance. Here we report a richly-decorated young infant burial (AVH-1) from Arma Veirana (Liguria, northwestern Italy) that is directly dated to 10,211–9910 cal BP (95.4% probability), placing it within the early Holocene and therefore attributable to the early Mesolithic, a cultural period from which well-documented burials are exceedingly rare. Virtual dental histology, proteomics, and aDNA indicate that the infant was a 40–50 days old female. Associated artifacts indicate significant material and emotional investment in the child’s interment. The detailed biological profile of AVH-1 establishes the child as the earliest European near-neonate documented to be female. The Arma Veirana burial thus provides insight into sex/gender-based social status, funerary treatment, and the attribution of personhood to the youngest individuals among prehistoric hunter-gatherer groups and adds substantially to the scant data on mortuary practices from an important period in prehistory shortly following the end of the last Ice Age. |
نوع الوثيقة: | article |
وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
اللغة: | English |
تدمد: | 2045-2322 |
Relation: | https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322 |
DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-021-02804-z |
URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/7787e1ab64f742f1baebe045d36bcf79 |
رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.7787e1ab64f742f1baebe045d36bcf79 |
قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
تدمد: | 20452322 |
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DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-021-02804-z |