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T1 Caracterización antropológica de una comunidad calcolítica mediterránea. El enterramiento colectivo de Camino del Molino (Caravaca de la Cruz, Murcia).
A1 Díaz Navarro, Sonia
A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Escuela de Doctorado
K1 Necrópolis - España - Murcia
K1 Prehistory
K1 Prehistoria
K1 Copper Age
K1 Calcolítico
K1 Bioarchaeology
K1 Bioarqueología
K1 5504.05 Prehistoria
AB The burial site of Camino del Molino (Caravaca de la Cruz, Murcia) was discovered by chance in 2008. From the beginning, it was of interest to the research community due to its exceptional characteristics, as it was a funerary deposit in continuous use during a large part of the 3rd millennium BC (2923-2712 - 2386-2226 BC) which housed a skeletal collection with an unprecedented volume in European Prehistory. Today we can affirm that Camino del Molino housed the largest ossuary of this chronology, made up of 1348 individuals. The objectives of this PhD thesis can be grouped into two main blocks. On the one hand, the aim has been to offer an approach to the biography of this tomb, based on the analysis of the funerary gesture and post-depositional alterations; to delimit the time of use and assess the existence of different phases; and to characterise the deposited community through the analysis of the population composition in order to identify possible patterns of access to the mortuary space. On the other hand, an exhaustive palaeopathological and morphometric analysis of the sample of articulated individuals has been carried out due to its great informative potential and its representativeness with respect to the total population. The first point has allowed us to reconstruct the ways of life and death and the states of health and disease. The second has revealed important findings that inform on intra-population variability in a sample of unique characteristics in this period. As a result, we can point out that the health of community members was clearly conditioned by their biological sex at birth, the environment in which they moved and intra-population relations. From the earliest years, the population was exposed to 9 a high burden of disease, which particularly affected the non-adults and women of the community. This leads to high infant mortality and women have a generally lower life expectancy than their male counterparts. It has also been possible to identify the development of specific activities carried out by some members of the community, as well as to propose the division of tasks by sex and the existence of a change in occupational patterns throughout the time of use of the tomb. Finally, the sexual dimorphism expressed from the osteometric analysis of the sample has led to the formulation of 20 discriminant functions on long bones. These have a probability of success of 80 to 95% and will be of great use in the sexual estimation of the Camino del Molino ossuary and other related prehistoric skeletal series in terms of sexual dimorphism and robustness.
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/61449
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/61449
LA spa
NO Escuela de Doctorado
DS UVaDOC
RD 20-may-2024