Human remains

CIDOC documentation: E20 Biological Object

“Human remains” is used to record anthropological data based on each human bone. They are subunits of a Stratigraphic unit which itself is a subunit of Feature. Please note that information on the biological sex, gender, and age of an individual can be entered in the stratigraphic unit entry mask. For an archaeological workflow example see Archaeological data.

Form fields

• Name

• Type

• Date

• Description

• Map

• Reference System

• Super - a Place, Feature, Stratigraphic unit, or human remains, which it is a part of

• Owned by - the Actor (person or group) who owns the remains such as museum

Can be linked via tabs to

• Source - Use, if a human remains is mentioned in a source

• Event - Acquisition, modification, move, and/or production can be linked

• Subs - Use, to add sub human remains

• Reference

• File

Super and subunits

In the OpenAtlas database Human remains can be subunits of a Stratigraphic unit (e.g. a human femur (human remains) of a skeleton (stratigraphic unit) in a grave (feature)). A Stratigraphic unit can consist of one or more Human remains (femur, humerus and first molar of the same individual etc.) as well as finds (see Artifact).