Death as a Family Affair: a Bioarchaeological Approach to Kinship Ecounters in an Early Islamic Community
Burials are sites of encounter between family members, the broader community, and the dead, while the human body itself encodes genetic kinship relations. This paper uses bioarchaeological approaches to document kinship encounters at the medieval site of Tashbulak, in the highlands of modern-day Uzb...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2024
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Medieval encounters
Year: 2024, Volume: 30, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 205-236 |
| Further subjects: | B
Islamic archaeology
B Highlands B Kinship B Central Asia B bioarchaeology B mortuary archaeology |
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| Summary: | Burials are sites of encounter between family members, the broader community, and the dead, while the human body itself encodes genetic kinship relations. This paper uses bioarchaeological approaches to document kinship encounters at the medieval site of Tashbulak, in the highlands of modern-day Uzbekistan. At Tashbulak, encounters between this mountain community and the broader region are captured in Muslim burial practices and genetic variation that overlaps with populations across Central Asia. Kinship encounters within the community can also be observed in the care taken with burials, especially in two exceptional graves of a disabled individual and a youth buried with personal effects. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0674 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Medieval encounters
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700674-12340185 |