Cranial vault modification as a cultural artifact: a comparison of the Eurasian steppes and the Andes

Torres‐Rouff, Christina; Yablonsky, Leonid

doi:10.1016/j.jchb.2004.09.001

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“…2000-1000 bc), practiced by peoples of the "Catacomb" culture and by those of southern Turkmenistan. 34,38 Nevertheless, this custom disappeared in both of these regions and became common again among the nomadic tribes and herdsmen of the Eurasian steppes in the early Iron Age (ca. 700-500 bc), first reappearing at the delta of the River Syr Darya.…”

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Artificially deformed crania from the Hun-Germanic Period (5th–6th century ad) in northeastern Hungary: historical and morphological analysis

Molnár

János

Szücs

et al. 2014

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From an anthropological point of view, artificial deformation of the cranial shape in newborns is one of the most interesting human customs, which has been recorded in all continents and in different cultures. However, the main goals of this procedure were basically the same everywhere; that is, to distinguish certain groups of people from others and to indicate the social status of individuals. In the Carpathian Basin all artificially deformed skulls are dated to the late Iron Age, especially to the early Migration Period. The authors examined 9 artificially deformed skulls from the Hun-Germanic Period (5th–6th century ad) excavated from two cemeteries in the northeastern part of the Great Hungarian Plain (Hungary). The extent and the type of the deformation as well as the technique were determined in each case. The authors also attempt to shed light on the probable origin and the historical context of the custom practiced in the Carpathian Basin (Hungary), relying on the anthropological and historical literature on the Hun-Germanic and preceding periods. It seems possible that this custom, which is associated with the finds in the Carpathian Basin, first appeared in the Kalmykia steppe, later in the Crimea, from where it spread to Central and Western Europe by way of the Hun migration. Neither the cranial find described presently nor the special literature on the subject furnish convincing evidence that the cranial deformation resulted in any chronic neurological disorder.

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Artificially deformed crania from the Hun-Germanic Period (5th–6th century ad) in northeastern Hungary: historical and morphological analysis

Molnár

János

Szücs

et al. 2014

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“…Como en la línea anterior, desde la década de 1990 se observa la apropiación de nuevas técnicas metodológicas y nuevos acercamientos teóricos que permiten la inclusión de los cráneos deformados de la colección en un contexto explicativo más amplio y relevante para el desarrollo de los conocimientos sobre el proceso de deformación craneana. En esta línea, los trabajos se dividen en dos categorías generales: aquellos que abordan los procesos que dieron origen a las deformaciones y sus consecuencias en el estudio de la variabilidad biológica de las poblaciones locales (Cocilovo y Zavattieri 1994; Cocilovo et al 1995); y aquellos que abordan aspectos sociales y de construcción de identidad a través del estudio de la incidencia de los tipos de deformaciones artificiales (Torres-Rouff 2002, 2003, 2007, 2009Torres-Rouff y Yablonsky 2005;Costa et al 2008).…”

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Estado de conservación y contextualización cronológica de la Colección Osteológica "Gustavo Le Paige"

Hübbe¹,

Oviedo²,

Torres‐Rouff³

2011

Estud. atacam.

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ResumenEntre 1950 y 1970 el sacerdote Gustavo Le Paige excavó una de las mayores colecciones osteológicas de América Latina, que ha llamado la atención de muchos investigadores en los últimos 40 años. En sus notas de terreno Le Paige consigna la exhumación de 5482 cráneos y cuerpos humanos, depositados en el Instituto de Investigaciones Arqueológicas y Museo de la Universidad Católica del Norte, en San Pedro de Atacama. Sin embargo, procesos acumulativos de abandono y falta de conservación preventiva produjeron serios daños en el estado de una parte significativa de esta colección, así como la pérdida de sus contextos. Aquí, presentamos el actual estado de conservación de la colección, al mismo tiempo que ofrecemos 50 nuevas dataciones radiocarbónicas que sitúan cronológicamente en forma más precisa a 21 de los cementerios más representativos de donde proviene nuestro objeto de estudio.Palabras claves: dataciones radiocarbónicas -cementerios -restos humanos -períodos alfareros -cuenca de Atacama. However, cumulative processes of abandonment and the lack of preventive conservation resulted in the loss of context and a decrease in the quality of preservation of a significant portion of this skeletal collection. Here, we present the current state of preservation of this collection, and 50 new radiocarbon dates that helps the chronological contextualization of 21 of the larger and more representative cemeteries in the Le Paige collection. Abstract

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“…Recent studies show that deformation types and techniques vary widely through time and space [26,27,28, inter alia). 7 Research, therefore, will aim to metrically characterise cranial deformation practices at Keushu in order to compare these to other highland and coastal populations and address long term cultural trends across time and space…”

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Pourquoi fouiller des dépôts funéraires pillés ? Deux exemples et quelques réponses de Keushu (Ancash, Pérou)

Gerdau-Radonić

Herrera

2010

Bull. Mém. Soc. Anthropol.

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Looted tombs at Andean archaeological sites are largely the result of a long tradition of trade in archaeological artefacts, coupled to the 17 th century policy of eradicating ancestor veneration and destroying mortuary evidence in a bid to "extirpate idolatry." On the surface, looted funerary contexts often present abundant disarticulated and displaced human remains as well as an apparent absence of mortuary accoutrements.

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Cranial vault modification as a cultural artifact: a comparison of the Eurasian steppes and the Andes

Cited by 38 publications

References 7 publications

Artificially deformed crania from the Hun-Germanic Period (5th–6th century ad) in northeastern Hungary: historical and morphological analysis

Artificially deformed crania from the Hun-Germanic Period (5th–6th century ad) in northeastern Hungary: historical and morphological analysis

Estado de conservación y contextualización cronológica de la Colección Osteológica "Gustavo Le Paige"

Pourquoi fouiller des dépôts funéraires pillés ? Deux exemples et quelques réponses de Keushu (Ancash, Pérou)

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