»Verbissen ins Jenseits – Bissspuren an einer mesolithischen Bestattung aus Groß-Fredenwalde, Brandenburg«

Online lecture

Lecture Series »Neue Bioarchäologische Forschungen« (NeuBioArch)

Hans Christian Küchelmann | Landesarchäologie Bremen, selbstständiger Archäozoologe (www.knochenarbeit.de)

»Verbissen ins Jenseits – Bissspuren an einer mesolithischen Bestattung aus Groß-Fredenwalde, Brandenburg« 

This talk will focus on taphonomic studies on gnawing marks found on one individual of a Mesolithic multiple burial site in Groß-Fredenwalde, district Uckermark, Brandenburg.

The detailed analysis of these taphonomic traces does not just indicate the species that most likely caused these marks but also gives valuable hints on the disarticulation- and embedding processes of this remarkable burial. Furthermore, the high information potential of integrated taphonomic analysis for bioarchaeological studies will be discussed and highlighted.