Aplicação de métodos bioarqueológicos em esqueletos históricos e pré-históricos: analisando ossos inumados e cremados

Abstract

The Bioarchaeology, Archaeology and Forensic Anthropology, have worked together in data recovery in order to reconstruct the past through the skeletal remains and the context in which they were inserted. This study aimed to present the effectiveness of the application of bioarchaeological and forensic methods in the analysis performed in historical material and cremated prehistoric, trying through the bones, contribute not only to the osteobiográfica identification of individuals but also to the collection of information archaeological context, including the funerary rituals and all that they represent in order to collaborate with the production of knowledge. The analysis resulted in the understanding of the ritual process in which the bones were involved, and in the diagnosis of gender, age and paleopathology of individuals as well as in understanding the taphonomic and produced by burning changes.