Thread by @BrusselsBioarch

Welcome to the last session of the Cremations in Archaeology conference! #CIA22

In this session, research questions about pyre technology and funerary practices will be explored! 🔥🪵⚰️⚱️

Not all cremations are alike! Jo Appleby uses a chaîne opératoire approach to investigate the complexity, creativity and variability in the cremation processes and practices in British Bronze Age sites 🔥

Pyre settings matter! Michaela Fritzl presents experimental pyre research on how cremation and interment changes metal, ceramic and textile artefacts. This provides a crucial insight into how ritual is recorded in the archaeological record!

Over to Iron Age Italy now, with Michael De Lotto discussing an archaeothanatological approach to identifying the burial position and biological profile of the cremated individual! 🦴 #CIA22

Hopping across to Crete, @ychatzikon presents the multiproxy analysis of 128,731 bone fragments(!) from the Early Minoan site of Koumasa. Re-excavation & new techniques provide fresh information on population details & the time, temperature & thermal intensity of the cremations!

With Filipa Cortesão Silva, we travel to the Roman city of Augusta Emerita (modern day Mérida, Spain), where we investigate the cremation practices in a singular first century AD mausoleum using macroscopic, metric and FTIR analyses 🔥🦴 #CIA22 @IAM_CSIC

Heading now to the postclassic period in the Huetamo region of western Mexico, Adam Budziszewski presents a study on cremated remains from funerary urns. Paleopathological and biological profile data, and taphonomy and fragmentation patterns in the bones suggests burial rites! 🦴

Our final talk takes us to Hungary, where Kristóf Fülöp discusses the stories hidden within pyre goods from a Bronze Age cemetery. Experimental data highlights the different trajectories objects have in the cremation process, & how they can help reconstruct the burial rite. 🔥⚱️