Nuovi dati sul cimitero bassomedievale di Cencelle (Tarquinia, VT). Dallo scavo alla disseminazione multimediale

The archaeological investigations conducted by Sapienza University of Rome at Cencelle site (Tarquinia, VT) uncovered a large central- and late-medieval churchyard associated with the Romanesque church of St. Peter. The cemetery, used by the local community from 11th to 16th century, provided an exceptional dataset for comparison with spatial organisation and burial practices already known from other Italian medieval churchyards. At the same time, its extensive bio-archaeological record has allowed buried individuals ongoing analysis, fundamental to acquire key information such as sex and age or pathological conditions. One female individual (AKA Jacopa) played a pivotal role as a case-study, stimulating interaction between archaeology and physical anthropology to reconstruct a coherent social and medical picture of Jacopa herself. This very picture also offered the opportunity to develop an innovative dissemination strategy through an experimental exhibition plan hosted at Sapienza’s History of Medicine Museum.