% pubman genre = article @article{item_3620497, title = {{Assembling ancestors: the manipulation of Neolithic and Gallo-Roman skeletal remains at Pommer{\oe}ul, Belgium}}, author = {Veselka, Barbara and Reich, David and Capuzzo, Giacomo and Olalde, I{\~n}igo and Callan, Kimberly and Zalzala, Fatma and Altena, Eveline and Goffette, Quentin and Ringbauer, Harald and van der Velde, Henk and Polet, Caroline and Toussaint, Michel and Snoeck, Christophe and Cattelain, Laureline}, language = {eng}, issn = {0003-598X}, doi = {10.15184/aqy.2024.158}, publisher = {Antiquity Publications, Ltd.}, address = {Gloucester, Eng.}, year = {2024}, abstract = {{Post-mortem manipulation of human bodies, including the commingling of multiple individuals, is attested throughout the past. More rarely, the bones of different individuals are assembled to create a single {\textquoteleft}individual{\textquoteright} for burial. Rarer still are composite individuals with skeletal elements separated by hundreds or even thousands of years. Here, the authors report an isolated inhumation within a Gallo-Roman-period cremation cemetery at Pommer{\oe}ul, Belgium. Assumed to be Roman, radiocarbon determinations show the burial is Late Neolithic{\textemdash}with a Roman-period cranium. Bioarchaeological analyses also reveal the inclusion of multiple Neolithic individuals of various ages and dates. The burial is explained as a composite Neolithic burial that was reworked 2500 years later with the addition of a new cranium and grave goods.}}, journal = {{Antiquity}}, volume = {98}, number = {402}, eid = {158}, }