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Practitioner preferences in the analysis of cremation deposits in archaeology and biological anthropology: An overview of current osteoarchaeological practices with a focus on sex estimation (2024)
Journal Article
Hlad, M., Löffelmann, T., Griffith, J. I., James, H. F., Vercauteren, M., Snoeck, C., & Veselka, B. (2024). Practitioner preferences in the analysis of cremation deposits in archaeology and biological anthropology: An overview of current osteoarchaeological practices with a focus on sex estimation. PLoS ONE, 19(12), Article e0310380. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0310380

Osteological data, such as biological sex, constitute a base for research in paleodemography and palaeopathology, as well as for understanding past socio-cultural practices. Despite extensive research efforts concerning cremated human remains over th... Read More about Practitioner preferences in the analysis of cremation deposits in archaeology and biological anthropology: An overview of current osteoarchaeological practices with a focus on sex estimation.

Strontium isotopes and cremation: Investigating mobility patterns in the Roman city of Mutina (north-eastern Italy) (2024)
Journal Article
Seghi, F., Lugli, F., James, H. F., Löffelmann, T., Armaroli, E., Vazzana, A., Cipriani, A., Snoeck, C., & Benazzi, S. (2024). Strontium isotopes and cremation: Investigating mobility patterns in the Roman city of Mutina (north-eastern Italy). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 58, Article 104728. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104728

Cremation was a very common ritual in ancient Roman funerary traditions. However, the study of cremated human remains has always been complex and challenging, which has often led to an imbalance in data recording between inhumations and cremations. I... Read More about Strontium isotopes and cremation: Investigating mobility patterns in the Roman city of Mutina (north-eastern Italy).

Sr analyses from only known Scandinavian cremation cemetery in Britain illuminate early Viking journey with horse and dog across the North Sea (2023)
Journal Article
Loeffelmann, T., Janet Montgomery, J., Richards, J. D., Johnson, L. J., Claeys, P., & Snoeck, C. (2023). Sr analyses from only known Scandinavian cremation cemetery in Britain illuminate early Viking journey with horse and dog across the North Sea. PLoS ONE, 18(2), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0280589

The barrow cemetery at Heath Wood, Derbyshire, is the only known Viking cremation cemetery in the British Isles. It dates to the late ninth century and is associated with the over-wintering of the Viking Great Army at nearby Repton in AD 873–4. Only... Read More about Sr analyses from only known Scandinavian cremation cemetery in Britain illuminate early Viking journey with horse and dog across the North Sea.