archeothanatology
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From archeo- + thanatology.
Noun
[edit]archeothanatology (uncountable)
- (archaeology) The study of ancient deaths
- 2016 February 25, “Early Medieval Muslim Graves in France: First Archaeological, Anthropological and Palaeogenomic Evidence”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- Based on the recorded position of bones in the grave, archeothanatology aims to determine the original position of the body, the position of the funerary artifacts, the relative chronology of deposits found in the grave and the architecture of the burial when it first took place.