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The Moharam Bek district was the southeastern sector of the ancient city, an area that has not been extensively excavated before now. The discoveries confirm that the area was still inside the walls of the ancient city into the Byzantine era before later changes in the city’s urban fabric marginalized the neighborhood.
Tulane University anthropologist Daniella Santoro and her husband Aaron Lorenz found the stone last year while doing yard work at their historic shotgun house in New Orlean’s Carrolton neighborhood. They reached out to archaeologists and Latin experts, including Tulane University classical studies professor Susann Lusnia, to research its history and translate the inscription. The text identified the deceased as Sextus Congenius Verus, soldier of the fleet of Misenum, an inscription matching one recorded as missing from the National Archaeological Museum of Civitavecchia after World War II.
Santoro, Lusnia, other experts and cultural heritage organizations worked together with the Civitavecchia museum on how best to get the grave marker back to the museum. Due to the complexities inherent in the repatriation process, they decided to bring in the FBI’s Art Crime Team. They took custody of the funerary marker in November of last year while the FBI in Rome coordinated the return of the slab and a number of other significant ancient artifacts with Italian authorities.
Professor Susann Lusnia:
“It is especially gratifying to know that this object will soon be home in the collection of the National Archaeological Museum of Civitavecchia. I think that those of us in New Orleans who experienced Hurricane Katrina understand the joy that accompanies the return of things that we thought were lost forever.”
“Cultural heritage is worth protecting … Every object returned builds trust and international cooperation, which I think is especially important now,” she added.
The early Neolithic pit was discovered by a team from the State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology (LDA) Saxony-Anhalt in advance of high-voltage line construction in 2024. It was located above the Saale River in an area known to have had Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Age settlements. The excavation uncovered numerous remains from the Neolithic-era occupation — postholes, burials, storage pits — including one small pit less than 32 inches in diameter that was packed with animals bones. Archaeologists knew at first glance that beaver were among them, because of their distinctive orange teeth. A flint object found in the fill of the pit suggested a Neolithic date.
While archaeological evidence has been found that beaver meat was eaten at this time and later, that was not the purpose of this hunt. There are no cut marks on the bones typically left by butchering and had the carcasses been consumed, the skeletal remains would be complete when they were discarded.
The bones are exceptionally well preserved and mostly unfragmented. Based on the skulls already uncovered, it can be assumed that the remains of at least twelve individuals were disposed of in the pit. The absence of some bones and the lack of anatomical coherence among the existing remains indicate that the animals were already skeletonized at the time of deposition. Various age classes, from quite young (1 year old) to old animals (over eight years old), can be identified based on the bones.
Hunting beavers along the Saale River in Alsleben was likely possible during the Neolithic. The concentration of bones in a single find suggests a unique event. Presumably, the animals were hunted for their fur, skinned, and the carcasses left until they decomposed, possibly on a garbage heap. The individual bones were later disposed of in the pit. The Alsleben find thus not only points to specialized hunting strategies in the early Neolithic period, but also allows us to draw conclusions about clothing at that time, which we can imagine to have been quite elaborate.
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