Non-invasive morphological studies of a tomographic dataset of Funerary Urns from the Middle Balsas region in Michoacán, Mexico

Abstract:

Studies of the funeral context of Funerary Urns using X-ray tomography provides a non-invasive method for measuring the context distribution, textural descriptors, topological, and morphological properties of the pieces inside the urns. This work presents a computational framework that provides the methods for processing the raw data produced by clinical X-ray tomography. The objective is to describe the distribution of the elements inside the urn and obtain three-dimensional models of the pieces which compose the funeral context. Subsequently, the models are evaluated using a set of morphological measurements which provide descriptors of each item from a set of funerary urns from the Middle Balsas region in Michoacán, Mexico. It was observed that the distribution of bones and metal objects within the urns was non-uniform. While some general burial practices were observed in some urns, the funerary context …

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2019

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