Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2021-03-12 , DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.102915 Samuel James Cockerill , Matilde Arnay-de-la-Rosa , Emilio González-Reimers
La Concepción church is the oldest church in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and it was used as a cemetery for over 200 years, during the 16th century and up to the 18th century. Those who were buried there were from multiple ethnic backgrounds and with different lifestyles. During an emergency archaeological excavation, comingled, poorly preserved bone remains of about 300 individuals were excavated. We here analyze a total of 198 tali, looking for the presence of non-metric traits. The results show that the frequencies of non-metric traits were greater than the majority of previous studies, indicating that a large proportion of the sample had an increased activity in the ankle region. Some traits appeared in the same bone and, more importantly, several tali with uncommon combinations belonged to individuals buried in the same tomb. These results were tested for randomness with binomial distribution tests that resulted in a P < 0.0001. Moreover, tombs containing tali with uncommon trait combinations showed a tendency to cluster in certain areas of the church. The results of this study therefore show that either people who performed similar activities that led to the development of certain patterns of trait combinations were interred together or in neighboring tombs, or these combinations of traits indicate a genetic relationship that explains why the individuals were buried in the same tombs. This study highlights the importance of analysing trait combinations in talar bones, since, together with other bioanthropological research tools – including genetics, and/or historical data – they may provide useful information for the reconstruction of important aspects of the daily lives of past populations. The study of trait combinations in talar bones may also aid in the detection and understanding of relationships within a cemetery, where kinship analysis is unable to be applied.
中文翻译:
公会墓葬或家庭墓葬?加那利群岛圣克鲁斯-德特内里费岛18世纪LaConcepción教堂公墓的人口内部关系分析
LaConcepción教堂是圣克鲁斯-德特内里费岛最古老的教堂,在16世纪至18世纪,它被用作墓地已有200多年的历史。那些被埋葬在那里的人来自多个种族背景,具有不同的生活方式。在紧急考古发掘中,挖出了约300个人的驼峰,保存不善的骨骸。在这里,我们总共分析了198个塔利,以寻找非度量特征。结果表明,非度量性状的频率高于以前的大多数研究,表明大部分样本在脚踝区域具有增强的活性。一些特征出现在同一块骨头中,更重要的是,几个不常见组合的塔利语属于埋在同一个坟墓中的个体。使用二项分布检验对这些结果进行了随机性检验,得出P <0.0001。此外,包含塔利语且具有不常见特征组合的坟墓在教堂的某些区域表现出聚集的趋势。因此,这项研究的结果表明,要么将从事类似活动从而导致某些特征组合发展的人们埋葬在一起,要么将其埋葬在相邻的坟墓中,或者这些特征组合表明了一种遗传关系,可以解释为什么人们将其埋葬在墓穴中。同样的坟墓。这项研究强调了分析距骨的性状组合的重要性,因为它与其他生物人类学研究工具(包括遗传学,和/或历史数据–它们可以为重建过去人口日常生活的重要方面提供有用的信息。对距骨的性状组合的研究也可能有助于检测和理解公墓中的亲属关系,在这种情况下,亲属关系分析无法应用。