Disturbance (archeology)
In archeology, a disturbance is the subsequent change in soil monuments .
Faults in special grave facilities can have different backgrounds:
- From the Neolithic Age onwards , burials such as megalithic structures and barrows were often used . These are divided into “authorized” (carried out by the same culture) and “unauthorized” (carried out by strangers) subsequent burials. Unauthorized reburials are often destructive in nature.
- Unintentional disturbances, mostly by chance.
- Exhumations . Here, too, there is a distinction between “justified” exhumations for scientific or forensic examinations and “unjustified” exhumations out of curiosity or to obtain relics .
- Criminal disruption of graves, such as grave damage / grave offenses with damage or destruction of the grave site, grave robbery with the theft of valuable grave goods or equipment and emptying of the grave for ritual or economic reasons.
Grave manipulation can be limited to the grave equipment or include manipulation of the dead.
In addition to the above-mentioned anthropogenic interventions in existing grave structures, there are also non-anthropogenic disturbances which, for B. can be caused by soil animals.
Deliberately executed disturbances of grave facilities are also referred to as grave manipulation .
See also
literature
- Christoph Kümmel : Prehistoric and early historical grave robbery. Archaeological interpretation and cultural anthropological explanation. Waxmann Verlag, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-8309-2205-6 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The following information is based on Christoph Kümmel: Prehistoric and early historical grave robbery. Archaeological interpretation and cultural anthropological explanation. Waxmann Verlag, Münster 2009, p. 112 ff. ( Google Books )
- ↑ Christoph Kümmel: Prehistoric and early historical grave robbery. Archaeological interpretation and cultural anthropological explanation. Waxmann Verlag, Münster 2009, graphic on p. 122 ( Google Books ).