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Multifactorial approach to describe early diagenesis of bones: The case study of the Merovingian cemetery of Saint-Linaire (France) by Anne-France Maurer; Valéry Zeitoun; Jérémie Bardin; Andrew R. Millard; Loïc Ségalen; Frédéric Guérin; Jean-François Saliège; Alain Person is a Earth and Planetary Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
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The excavation of the Merovingian cemetery of Saint-Linaire (France) was an opportunity to describe the completeness of the tombs preserved from soil erosion. An anthropobiological study was carried out on the osteological material and the different categories of graves. On the basis of a complete archaeo-anthropological corpus we have undertaken an analysis of the differential preservation of the bones according to the different archaeobiological parameters such as the type of bone, the individual age but also the type of grave such as earthen graves, coffin, or sarcophagus. In order to establish whether and how funerary practices had impacted the early diagenesis of the bones, FTIR was used to investigate the carbonate and fluoride content of the bones, and the infra-red splitting factor (SF), while XRD analysis was performed to estimate the crystallinity index (CI). In addition, the micro, macro and total porosity of the bones were measured by water adsorption, and bone carbon and nitrogen amounts were obtained by EA-IRMS. These diagenetic variables were analysed with regards to environmental (grave filling: humus, calcareous, clay), cultural (type of grave) and biological (matu
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- Author
- Anne-France Maurer; Valéry Zeitoun; Jérémie Bardin; Andrew R. Millard; Loïc Ségalen; Frédéric Guérin; Jean-François Saliège; Alain Person
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Earth and Planetary Sciences (Physical Sciences)