Methodology: Archaeology


             In the first stage of the project is vital for the successful outcome of the project, as in the early stages individual metals are documented, so finds can be verified in museums and missing information documented in the database in later stages of the research. Moreover, graves with skeletons of key importance can be identified based on the rarity and foreign traits of metals. 
             In the folllowing stages the documentation and anylsis of osseous materials, both zoological and anthropological, radicoarbon dating and aDNA analysis is carried out by the specialists, in order to gain the information of absolute chronology, physical and molecular anthropology and meals from faunal remains.
              Lastly, during the final stage evaluation and interpretation of the interconnections researched by the specialist are coupled with the information from metals and far reaching social and cultural entanglements of Bronze Age networking are explored.


Tree-strucutre of the database for funerary metal types
of the Eastern Carpathian Basin ©DeathMetalsII


           The new methodologies and cogency of metal agencies, precise chronologies, mobility and kinship offer a series of innovative elements:

• Inference of social information based on the complete anatomic and archaeozoological analysis of distinct groups of buried individuals;
• Employment of Bayesian statistics to new sets of high precision radiocarbon dates;
• First systematic step in constitution of family relations of individuals from the ECB;
• Analysis of metal agencies and cultural entanglements based on sets of funerary finds.

       The organic combination of statistics, AMS dating from the field of physics, archaeology, physical and biomolecular anthropology make the present project a highly interdisciplinary one. The timeliness of the research is suggested by the availability of open access, big data in the field of AMS dating and sequenced full genome resulted from aDNA analysis. 


Tree-strucutre of funerary metal types
of the Eastern Carpathian Basin ©DeathMetalsII

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