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On a bed of bones: An early imperial burial from Vindonissa
Editor(s)
Lang, Felix
Book title (Conference Proceedings)
The sound of bones : proceedings of the 8th Meeting of the ICAZ Worked Bone Research Group in Salzburg 2011
Place of Conference
Salzburg
Publisher
Universität Salzburg
Place of Publication
Salzburg
Pages
S. 41-55
ISSN/ISBN
978-3-9502897-5-6
Keywords
Vindonissa, Cremation burials, Roman burial customs, Couch, Bone carvings
Abstract
In the course of the large excavation project Vindonissa-Vision Mitte (2006 – 2009) in the western civil settlement of the roman legionary fortress of Vindonissa (Switzerland) eleven cremation graves were found. Two of these graves contain relics of couches that were partly made of curved bones. This article will present the archaeological and the archaeozoological results of the analysis of one of these burials.
