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T1 Geochemical and spectroscopic approach to the characterization of earliest cremated human bones from the Levant (PPNB of Kharaysin, Jordan)
A1 Iriarte Avilés, Eneko
A1 García Tojal, Javier
A1 Santana Cabrera, Jonathan
A1 Jorge Villar, Susana E.
A1 Teira, Luis .
A1 Muñiz Álvarez, Juan Ramón
A1 Ibáñez, Juan José .
K1 Cremation
K1 PPNB
K1 Jordan
K1 X-ray diffraction
K1 FTIR
K1 EPR
K1 Raman spectroscopy
K1 Arqueología
K1 Archaeology
K1 Paleontología
K1 Paleontology
AB Cremation is a widespread funerary practice that aims to burn the body and create a new appearance of human remains. It has been interpreted as a ritual transition that includes a sequence of acts and processes aimed at commemorating the dead on an individual and collective scale. In the Near East, fire-induced manipulation or cremation was not a usual burial practice during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic. In this contribution, we present the geochemical (X-ray fluorescence), mineralogical (X-ray Diffraction) and spectroscopic (Raman spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy and (Electron Paramagnetic Resonance) analysis of bones from a Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (ca. 9000 yr cal BP) burial in Kharaysin site (Quneya, Zarqa) in northwest Jordan. We discuss the data obtained by the different analytical methods reviewing the state of the art of each analytical method to infer bone burning palaeotemperatures. Finally, it is demonstrated the burned character of the analysed bones, confirming the earliest presence of cremated human bones in a funerary context of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the Near East in Kharaysin. This fact provides a new insight into the complexity and variability of burial customs within the Pre-Pottery Neolithic in Levant.
PB Elsevier
SN 2352-409X
YR 2020
FD 2020-01
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/9767
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/9767
LA eng
NO The authors acknowledge the Consejería de Educación de Castilla y León and FEDER BU291P18, BU022G18 and Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad projects: “Los orígenes del Neolítico en Próximo Oriente: Cambios Ambientales, Económicos, Sociales e Ideológicos (NEOPROX) (HAR2016-74999-P)”, CTQ2016-75023-C2-1-P and CTQ2015-70371-REDT MetDrugs Network (Spain) for financing different aspects of this work
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 06-ene-2025