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Bioarchaeological analyses reveal long-lasting continuity at the periphery of the Late Antique Roman Empire

The Basel-Waisenhaus burial community (Switzerland) has been traditionally interpreted as immigrated Alamans because of the location and dating of the burial ground – despite the typical late Roman funeral practices. To evaluate this hypothesis, multi-isotope and aDNA analyses were conducted on the...

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Autores principales: Depaermentier, Margaux L.C., Krause-Kyora, Ben, Hajdas, Irka, Kempf, Michael, Kuhn, Thomas, Spichtig, Norbert, Schwarz, Peter-Andrew, Gerling, Claudia
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Publicado: Elsevier 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10285633/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37360687
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.107034
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author Depaermentier, Margaux L.C.
Krause-Kyora, Ben
Hajdas, Irka
Kempf, Michael
Kuhn, Thomas
Spichtig, Norbert
Schwarz, Peter-Andrew
Gerling, Claudia
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description The Basel-Waisenhaus burial community (Switzerland) has been traditionally interpreted as immigrated Alamans because of the location and dating of the burial ground – despite the typical late Roman funeral practices. To evaluate this hypothesis, multi-isotope and aDNA analyses were conducted on the eleven individuals buried there. The results show that the burial ground was occupied around AD 400 by people belonging largely to one family, whereas isotope and genetic records most probably point toward a regionally organized and indigenous, instead of an immigrated, community. This strengthens the recently advanced assumption that the withdrawal of the Upper Germanic-Rhaetian limes after the “Crisis of the Third Century AD” was not necessarily related to a replacement of the local population by immigrated Alamannic peoples, suggesting a long-lasting continuity of occupation at the Roman periphery at the Upper and High Rhine region.
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spelling pubmed-102856332023-06-23 Bioarchaeological analyses reveal long-lasting continuity at the periphery of the Late Antique Roman Empire Depaermentier, Margaux L.C. Krause-Kyora, Ben Hajdas, Irka Kempf, Michael Kuhn, Thomas Spichtig, Norbert Schwarz, Peter-Andrew Gerling, Claudia iScience Article The Basel-Waisenhaus burial community (Switzerland) has been traditionally interpreted as immigrated Alamans because of the location and dating of the burial ground – despite the typical late Roman funeral practices. To evaluate this hypothesis, multi-isotope and aDNA analyses were conducted on the eleven individuals buried there. The results show that the burial ground was occupied around AD 400 by people belonging largely to one family, whereas isotope and genetic records most probably point toward a regionally organized and indigenous, instead of an immigrated, community. This strengthens the recently advanced assumption that the withdrawal of the Upper Germanic-Rhaetian limes after the “Crisis of the Third Century AD” was not necessarily related to a replacement of the local population by immigrated Alamannic peoples, suggesting a long-lasting continuity of occupation at the Roman periphery at the Upper and High Rhine region. Elsevier 2023-06-08 /pmc/articles/PMC10285633/ /pubmed/37360687 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.107034 Text en © 2023 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Gerling, Claudia
Bioarchaeological analyses reveal long-lasting continuity at the periphery of the Late Antique Roman Empire
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10285633/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37360687
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.107034
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