Anthropological Analysis of Two Cremation Graves Discovered in the Settlement of Zimandu Nou (Arad County)
Anthropological Analysis of Two Cremation Graves Discovered in the Settlement of Zimandu Nou (Arad County)

Summary/Abstract: Works for the introduction of sewage inside the former Takátsy manor house in the settlementof Zimandu Nou, in Arad, have revealed two funerary urns dated to the Early Bronze Age. The anthropologicalanalysis has noted the fact that the cremated remains belonged to two individuals, one subadult and one femaleyoung adult. The white color of the calcined fragments suggest that the firing temperature was of ca. 900–1000ºC and the pattern of the fractures caused by the high temperature indicates the presence of soft tissue on thebones at the time of firing.

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