Bio-arqueologia de las practicas funerarias (British Archaeological Reports British Series)

A translation of the rather long subtitle reveals the subject of this study as an analysis of the community interred in the prehistoric cemetery of Cova des Carritx on the island of Menora, which dates to c.1450-800 Cal BC. A description of the discovery of the site and the aims and methodology of the recovery of material from it are followed by detailed analyses of the human remains and other artefacts deposited as grave goods. Issues of taphonomy, funerary ritual, demography, biological characteristics of the population represented (also compared with other populations), stress indicators, diet and palaeopathology, and the possible representation of social inequalities at the site, are all discussed. Spanish text.