Egyptian Bioarchaeology

埃及生物考古学

• 批准号: 2790288
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Southampton
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2790288
• 关键词: Egyptian; Bioarchaeology

Since the discovery of the pyramid workers' cemetery at the Giza plateau in 1990, a full assessment of the individuals inhumed has never been conducted. The cemetery is divided into two sections; the upper cemetery (largely reserved for artisans) containing 43 tombs, and the lower cemetery (for low-status labourers) with over 600 tombs (Hawass 1998a). From these skeletons we can assess characteristics of the population and understand how they lived. Yet, there remains significant gaps in our knowledge; apart from a 'sample' (see Hawass 2009), the workers' skeletons have never been studied and the exact number of skeletons has not been published. The primary aim of this research is to perform activity reconstructions using osteological data: entheseal change ( osseous changes at the attachment sites of muscles or ligaments as a result of biomechanical stress), osteoarthritis (damage to synovial joints in the form of osteophytes, joint erosion, and ebumation), and geometric morphometric analysis of humeri and tibiae (changes in the shape, robusticity, and cross-section of the bone) (see Jurmain et al 2012 for discussion). The secondary aim of this research is to create osteobiographical profiles of the population to facilitate understanding of what work was conducted and by whom, social divisions, sexual dimorphism, pathology, and dis/ability and impairment. This will incorporate:Osteological analysis (age, sex, pathology, entheseal change, osteoarthritis, geometric morphometrics)Demographic data (age, sex, social class)Funerary archaeology (tomb art, tomb positioning, body positioning, taphonomy).

自1990年在吉萨高原（Giza Plateau）发现金字塔工人的墓地以来，从未对被吸引的个人进行全面评估。墓地分为两个部分。上层公墓（主要保留给工匠），其中包含43个坟墓，以及具有超过600座坟墓的下层公墓（对于低地位劳动者）（Hawass 1998a）。从这些骨骼中，我们可以评估人口的特征并了解他们的生活。然而，我们的知识仍然存在很大的差距。除了“样本”（参见Hawass 2009）之外，工人的骨骼从未被研究过，尚未出版骨骼的确切数量。 The primary aim of this research is to perform activity reconstructions using osteological data: entheseal change ( osseous changes at the attachment sites of muscles or ligaments as a result of biomechanical stress), osteoarthritis (damage to synovial joints in the form of osteophytes, joint erosion, and ebumation), and geometric morphometric analysis of humeri and tibiae (changes in the shape,稳健性和骨骼的横截面）（有关讨论，请参见Jurmain等人2012）。这项研究的次要目的是创建人群的骨般的概况，以促进了解进行的工作，以及通过谁，社会分裂，性二态性，病理学，疾病/能力/能力和障碍。这将结合：骨学分析（年龄，性别，病理学，棘手变化，骨关节炎，几何形态计量学）人口统计数据（年龄，性别，性别，社会阶层）葬礼考古学（墓艺术，墓地，身体定位，身体定位，taphemony）。