13th September 2005, 06:53 PM
Greetings Mark and Hi Dinos. The decaps you refer to in York are currently undergoing analysis and as such, are not yet published. You are therefore unlikely to gain the data your looking for just yet. Decaps do come up now and again in ppg driven work-I remember one that came up when I worked for Network/Transco on a pipeline job a few years ago-twas Oxfordshire somewhere...gizza few days and I`ll hunt details for you. In the meantime-please pass my best wishes on to Dr Lynda O`Connell if she`s still there!
Not sure about the Romano-British frames of reference you`ve set yourself-decapitation tended to be a rite for Roman citizens...another issue you may want to consider is that crania have a nasty habit of moving about post-deposition and as such it may be tenuous to draw inferences from the positions they`re found in under the trowel. If it would help, I know a couple of osteos who are pretty knowledgable on the subject...e-mail me off BAJR and I may (cost you cream eggs) put you together wiv one.....
Not sure about the Romano-British frames of reference you`ve set yourself-decapitation tended to be a rite for Roman citizens...another issue you may want to consider is that crania have a nasty habit of moving about post-deposition and as such it may be tenuous to draw inferences from the positions they`re found in under the trowel. If it would help, I know a couple of osteos who are pretty knowledgable on the subject...e-mail me off BAJR and I may (cost you cream eggs) put you together wiv one.....