The space of man’s death. A modern age secondary burial case in northern Italy
| Autor: | Barbara Grassi, Silvia Iorio, Paola Badino, Monica Motto, Marta Licata |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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060101 anthropology History Taphonomy Burial Context (archaeology) Historical Article History 19th Century 06 humanities and the arts Middle Aged Ancient history History 18th Century Bone and Bones Northern italy 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Archaeology Italy Anthropology Architecture Humans 0601 history and archaeology 030216 legal & forensic medicine azzio body treatment crypts modern age secondary burials mortuary practices northern Italy adult archaeology architecture bone and bones burial history 18th century history 19th century humans italy male middle aged |
| Zdroj: | HOMO. 70:93-104 |
| ISSN: | 0018-442X |
| DOI: | 10.1127/homo/2019/1077 |
| Popis: | Much of the recent archaeological and anthropological research on Italian modern age secondary burials has focused primarily on source analysis and the funerary context descriptions. To enable a clearer understanding of these atypical burials we need more archaeological data. To comprehend the mortuary practices it is necessary to investigate the surviving funeral monuments, burials and human remains. In fact, through the correct analysis of cultural material and human remains, it is possible to highlight the taphonomic changes of the corpse experiences during the entire ritual process. This will allow us to reconstruct the modality of body treatment in the funeral ritual. Now, we know partially the diffusion of the secondary burial ritual in southern Italy, but in northern Italy, it is lesser known. In this paper, we report the results of the archaeological and anthropological investigations conducted inside the Crypt of the Franciscan Monastery of Azzio (Varese, northern Italy). In the hypogeal funerary chamber, the corpses were temporarily deposed in seat-niches. This type of burial recalls the sitting colatois (masonry seat with a hole in the center), known in Naples as "cantarelle" and largely present in southern Italy. Throughout archaeological, anthropological and historical investigations, we tried to reconstruct the ritual adopted by the Friars and to better understand the ties with other northern and southern Italian testimonies. After our investigations, we received several notices of other similar funerary monuments in northern Italy that would be worth investigating. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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