The fire has gone out at the Cremations in Archaeology conference 2022 here in Ghent, but don't worry though the flame will be reignited in 2024 for the second CIA conference!
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!
It's session 3 time at the Cremations in Archaeology conference! This session focuses on new developments used in the study of cremation and cremated human remains 🔥🦴🦷⚱️🗓
Five talks this afternoon and come back tomorrow morning for five more talks 👍🏻
First up, we are at Tilburg in the Netherlands. Joris Brattinga presents an efficient method of block-lifting and excavating cremation burials which enables detailed post-excavation analysis and maximises the recording of archaeological information!
Jumping across the Channel to the UK, Benjamin Neil discusses the approach of a commercial archaeological unit and highlights the potential of CT scanning, sexing methods and excavation techniques for recording cremation deposits!
Good morning and welcome to day 2 and session 2 of the Cremations in Archaeology conference in Ghent.
This session covers studies of diet, mobility, and society from cremated remains! Enjoy 🔥
First up, we are heading to Early medieval Britain! @Tee_Loeffel discusses her Sr isotope analysis on cremated remains from Cleatham, looking for mobility related to sex and phase of the site!
Now to the Danube and Po River plains, where Claudio Cavazzuti combines data from several key second millennium sites. Funerary practices, family grouping and mobility related to sex and social rank can then be examined! ⚱️🚶🏽♀️👨👩👧👦🦴🔥🦷
It's poster session time at the Cremations in Archaeology conference! #CIA22
Here is what is being presented:
Age-at-death estimation on cremated remains is challenging! Panagiota Bantavanou's poster presents a new method for severely fragmented and cremated bones!
The odd one out? Using the new Belgium Sr baseline, @AmandaSengeloev presents the potential origins of the highest 87Sr/86Sr value ever measured on cremated bones in Belgium!
Igniting the conference is @Christophe_Fire presenting the work of the CRUMBEL project. Cremations, urns, isotopes, and memories. A great 5 years of research 👩🔬🦴🔥🗺💕 Great work team!
The CRUMBEL project has used osteology, histology, strontium, iron, copper & zinc isotopes & concentrations, oxygen & carbon isotopes, FTIR, radiocarbon dating, experimental cremations and more to investigate cremations in Belgium from the Neolithic to early Middle Ages! 🔥🦴🦷