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Emphasising the community: demographic composition of an exceptional tomb—the Chalcolithic burial site of Camino del Molino, Caravaca de la Cruz, Murcia

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dc.contributor.authorDíaz‑Navarro, Sonia
dc.contributor.authorHaber Uriarte, María
dc.contributor.authorTejedor‑Rodríguez, Cristina
dc.contributor.authorLomba Maurandi, Joaquín
dc.contributor.departmentPrehistoria, Arqueología, Historia Antigua, Historia Medieval y Ciencias y Técnicas Historiográficas
dc.contributor.otherFacultad de Letras
dc.coverage.spatialRegión de Murcia
dc.coverage.temporalCalcolítico (Prehistoria)
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-17T08:51:19Z
dc.date.available2026-02-17T08:51:19Z
dc.date.copyright© 2023 The Author(s)
dc.date.issued2023-08-29
dc.description.abstractReconstructing the biological profile of a skeletal sample is essential for defining a particular demographic group or classifying isolated remains. These results allow us to complete the population pyramid of a settlement, analyse mortality trends and relate individuals of a particular sex or age-at-death category to possible funerary rituals, lifestyles and/or states of health and disease. In this work, we carry out a paleodemographic analysis of a singular tomb: the chalcolithic burial site of Camino del Molino, Murcia, SE Spain. The tomb hosted 1348 individuals (30.7% non-adults and 69.3% adults) over two contiguous funerary phases, spanning a large part of the third millennium BC, which makes it a reference site for knowledge of the Recent Prehistoric populations. For this purpose, we estimated different paleodemographic parameters (life tables, mortality rates and sex ratios) and compared them to model life tables of preindustrial populations and data from other contemporary peninsular series to evaluate possible demographic anomalies. The results suggest that Camino del Molino was home to individuals of all ages and sex. However, there is a clear under-representation of newborns and nursing/breastfeeding infants and an over-representation of 5–15-year-old individuals. These findings could indicate potential issues related to diet/weaning, disease and early inclusion in the economic activities of the group.
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dc.identifier.citationArchaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2023) 15:(140)
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-023-01844-y
dc.identifier.eissn1866-9565
dc.identifier.issn1866-9557
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10201/206301
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSpringer Nature
dc.relationBeca predoctoral Junta de Castilla y León y Fondo Social Europeo(ORDEN EDU/574/2018); Proyecto de Investigación “METOO” de la Universidad de Valladolid (PROYEMER-2021-45).
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dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectPaleodemography
dc.subjectCopper age
dc.subjectCollective burial
dc.subjectIberian Peninsula
dc.subjectBioarchaeology
dc.subject.odsNo relacionado con ningún objetivo de desarrollo sostenible
dc.titleEmphasising the community: demographic composition of an exceptional tomb—the Chalcolithic burial site of Camino del Molino, Caravaca de la Cruz, Murcia
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