The skeletal remains from Umm an-Nar tomb QA 1-1: spatial distribution and anthropological analysis
Collective aboveground circular tombs of stone are one of the main categories of mortuary structures from the Umm an-Nar period (2500–2000 BC) in the Oman peninsula. The tombs have been known since the late 1950s but various aspects of their functioning still await a full explanation. Most of them s...
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| Format: | Article |
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University of Warsaw Press
2021-12-01
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| Series: | Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean |
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| Online Access: | http://pam-journal.pl/gicid/01.3001.0015.6804 |
| Summary: | Collective aboveground circular tombs of stone are one of the main categories of mortuary structures from the Umm an-Nar period (2500–2000 BC) in the Oman peninsula. The tombs have been known since the late 1950s but various aspects of their functioning still await a full explanation. Most of them survived in poor condition, often empty, only a dozen or so actually yielding any human remains. Tomb QA 1-1, one of ten Umm an-Nar-type tombs at Wadi al-Fajj in northwestern Oman, has yielded a substantial assemblage of human skeletal remains (estimated MNI 25) from the two of four burial chambers excavated between 2016 and 2018. While the excavation of the tomb should be continued, a presentation of the bone assemblage recovered to date, including a distribution analysis of the remains, deposition characteristic, and preliminary osteological analysis, adds to the existing source base of Early Bronze Age populations in the ancient land of Magan. |
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| ISSN: | 1234-5415 2083-537X |