Neonatal dental analysis undermines the child-sacrifice reading of Carthaginian Tophet remains.

Evidence

The principal contemporary challenge to the Stager-Wolff interpretation, using paleopathological techniques (neonatal-line dental examination) unavailable in the 1980s. Schwartz et al. argue that the age-at-death profile of the Tophet population includes too many neonatal and stillbirth deaths to be consistent with a sacrifice-only population. Significance: the paper that re-opened a forty-year scholarly debate. — , The Rod and the Child, 11575

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Microscopic bone analysis undermines the child-sacrifice reading of the Carthage Tophet. — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 1182; Skeletal evidence from Carthage’s tophet does not confirm systematic infant sacrifice — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 12318

Related

• Microscopic bone analysis undermines the child-sacrifice reading of the Carthage Tophet. (similarity 0.93)
• Skeletal evidence from Carthage’s tophet does not confirm systematic infant sacrifice (similarity 0.91)
• The Carthage Tophet sacrifice debate remains genuinely unresolved by current evidence. (similarity 0.86)

Broader Connections

• Skeletal evidence from Carthage’s tophet does not confirm systematic infant sacrifice #corroborates (0.85) — , The Rod and the Child, 12318