The Đa Bút Period in Northern Vietnam: Current Knowledge and Future Directions

Trinh, Hiep Hoang; Huffer, Damien

doi:10.7152/jipa.v35i0.14894

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“…Hyper-flexed burials have been observed at five sites in Neolithic southern China (Hecun, Qiujiang, Dingsishan, Lingwu and Huiyaotian, see Figure 1), suggesting a constrained geographic distribution for this burial tradition (He et al 2009; Li et al 2013; Qin 2015; Matsumura et al 2017). The cemeteries of the Đa Bút Culture in northern Vietnam also feature a similar pattern of depositional bodily modification to the Dingsishan site (Viet 2005; Trinh & Huffer 2015).…”

Section: Archaeological Contextmentioning

confidence: 76%

Disarticulation, evisceration and excarnation: Neolithic mortuary practices at Dingsishan, southern China

Ye,

Wang,

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Antiquity

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The diversity of human mortuary practices and treatments in prehistory is widely recognised, but our understanding of the purpose and manner of corpse manipulation in many regions is limited. This article reports on unusual aspects of funerary archaeology at the Neolithic site of Dingsishan, southern China. Anatomical consideration of cutmarks on human bones and the positioning of bodies and body parts within burials suggests that mortuary treatments at this site included strategic and systematic disarticulation, evisceration and excarnation. Rather than signalling social differences, these practices may have resulted from the very practical need to save space.

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Section: Archaeological Contextmentioning

confidence: 76%