IL POPOLAMENTO DI THARROS IN ETÀ FENICIA E PUNICA.ANALISI ANTROPOLOGICHE PRELIMINARI DALLA NECROPOLI MERIDIONALE DI CAPO SAN MARCO (PENISOLA DEL SINIS - OR)

The first data of the anthropological analysis performed on the skeletal remains recovered, from primary and secondary depositions, during the recent excavation campaigns carried out in the necropolis southern Tharros as part of the Ministerial Concession for archaeological research and excavations in uploaded to the University of Bologna. This study represents a preliminary note of the investigation bioarchaeological underway by the Anthropology Laboratory of the University of Palermo with the School of Specialization in Archaeological Heritage of the University of Bologna, on the remains anthropological tharrensi, and is part of a larger research project aimed at reconstruction of the funerary landscape of the Punic colony of Oristano, as well as the determination of anthropic physiognomy and the food and work habits of his community. Theskeletal analysis of human remains, burned and inhumed, attributable to well, pit and chamber tombs hypogean, found a good sample of individuals, from infans to adults. At present what it is deduces from the processed data provides important information on the age of death, the constitution and the lifestyle of individuals.