<scp>MEMOR</scp>: A database of archeological human remains collections from Flanders, Belgium
Isabelle De Groote|Katrien Van de Vijver|Barbara Veselka|Pieterjan De Potter|Liesbeth Massagé|Lien Van der Dooren|Jeroen Vandenborre|Maarten Larmuseau|Jonas Danckers|Bart Robberechts
The aim of this article is to describe a newly created open access database archeological human remains collections from Flanders, Belgium. MEMOR (www.memor.be) was provide an overview the current practices loans, reburial, and research potential skeletons sites currently stored in Flanders. In addition, project aimed legal ethical framework for handling around stakeholder involvement anthropologists, geneticists, contract archeologists, local, regional national government agencies, local government, universities, representatives major religions. has resulted creation rich with many available study. using open-source Arches data management platform that freely organizations worldwide configure accordance their individual needs without restrictions on its use. Each collection linked information about excavation site originate from, size time period. tab reveals whether any analyses were performed, notes are assemblage. contains 742 collections, ranging 1 over 1000 individuals. New will continue be added when new assemblages excavated studied. can also expanded include other regions material categories, such as archaeozoological collections.
American journal of biological anthropology|PubMed