The Body in the Ditch: Alternative Funerary Practices on the Northern Frontier of the Roman Empire?
(2019)
Journal Article
Buck, T., Greene, E. M., Meyer, A., Barlow, V., & Graham, E. (2019). The Body in the Ditch: Alternative Funerary Practices on the Northern Frontier of the Roman Empire?. Britannia: A Journal of Romano-British and Kindred Studies, 50, 203-224. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0068113x1900014x
Disarticulated human remains were recovered from a first-century fort ditch at Vindolanda on the north-west frontier of the Roman Empire. Ancient DNA analysis revealed the skeleton to be that of a male individual and forensic taphonomic analysis sugg... Read More about The Body in the Ditch: Alternative Funerary Practices on the Northern Frontier of the Roman Empire?.