At to the lowest degree twenty burials from the medieval catamenia were flora yesteryear a squad of archaeologists inwards the parish of Santa Maria Maior, inwards Lisbon.
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"At the minute nosotros already convey twenty [bodies], but, possibly, fifty-fifty to a greater extent than volition appear, because nosotros convey solely excavated the firstly marking of the cemetery", said Vanessa Filipe, archeologist together with coordinator of the projection tasked alongside installing ecopoints yesteryear the Lisbon Municipal Chamber.
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"The cemetery was discovered on 26 June, inwards the context of a projection inwards which a squad of archaeologists carried out a survey together with diagnosis of the areas earlier the installation of the ecopoints", she explained.
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"The necropolis dates to medieval times, from the fourteenth together with outset of the fifteenth centuries", Vanessa Filipe said.
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"The cemetery is belike associated alongside a hermitage belonging to the Marquises of Cascais together with the church building walls would move inwards an expanse almost to where the bodies were buried", the project's coordinator added.
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"The necropolis is fully Christian, since all the bodies were buried alongside the caput towards the westward together with the feet to the east, together with hence that they volition rising inwards the direction of the rising sun", Vanessa Filipe explained, adding that "there are other similar cemeteries inwards Lisbon."
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"The excavated burials are homogeneous, they all belong to adults, except for 1 child", says forensic anthropologist Sónia Ferro, adding that the trunk of the kid "is the solely burial alongside prove of only about to a greater extent than serious pathology, consistent alongside a tuberculose".
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The researcher explained that "the deceased were probable hapless people from a nearby neighbourhood, because they were buried straight inwards the earth", adding that "only 1 private has a money inwards his hand, which was normal inwards medieval times, to pay for the journeying to the other side".
The earthworks is expected to final 3 years.
Source: CMJornal [July 26, 2018] Sumber http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com
