Poster De Conférence Année : 2025

Dead and the City: The Cremations of a Woman and a Child in a Caleti Necropolis During the High Roman Empire

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Since 2021, 22 French researchers were appointed to analyze and synthesize all the data gathered about "Juliobona, the capital of the Caleti" (nowadays called "Lillebonne", in Normandy) and its territory (Spiesser dir. 2021). This research program, promoted by the conurbation authority of Caux Seine, now focuses on the caput civitatis itself (Parétias dir. 2024; Parétias dir. 2025). Among other research topics about the material culture, one of the main goals of the program is the study of funerary rites that were utilized in the city, in order to identify possible differences between people. In this regard, the site of the Catillon, explored since the 19th century, and known as being the main necropolis of the town, provides a rich source of data. For example, based on biological criteria, we identified carbonized bones of a presumed mature woman buried without grave goods (Gadacz 2011). This sepulchre, discovered during a field survey (Kliesch dir. 2011), revealed features clearly different from the standards known for this cemetery at the same period (the end of the 1st / beginning of the 2nd century CE), such as those seen in the neighboring burial (Gadacz 2011; Kliesch dir. 2011), or, more recently, in the tomb of a small child known as “Domina’s Grave” (Wech dir. 2022). For our poster presentation, we would like to focus on these two peculiar discoveries that allow us to understand, despite the difficulties of analyzing cremations, that there were indeed differences in funerary practices between adults and children, possibly even between adults themselves, in this necropolis during the High Roman Empire.

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hal-05234082 , version 1 (01-09-2025)

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Mélanie Gadacz, Jonas Parétias, Pierre Wech. Dead and the City: The Cremations of a Woman and a Child in a Caleti Necropolis During the High Roman Empire. ICORB. International Congress on Roman Bioarchaeology, Aug 2025, Zagreb (partiellement virtuel), Croatia. ⟨hal-05234082⟩
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