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Published August 29, 2023 | Version v1
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An approach to establishing a workflow pipeline for synergistic analysis of osteological and biochemical data. The case study of Amvrakia in the context of Corinthian colonisation between 625-189 BC in Epirus, Greece.

  • 1. Democritus University of Thrace

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Bioarchaeology has laboured for many decades to reconstruct the living conditions and socioeconomic aspects of past human experiences throughout the study of skeletal remains. Within the vastly broad area of bioarchaeological research lies oral pathology, and stable carbon and nitrogen analysis. Despite the significant efficiency in the correlation process of bioarchaeological data through varied statistical analyses, the estimations are still performed by the observation, interpretation and comparison of different statistical plots. To avoid time-consuming procedures, we propose a tool that enables the researcher to automatically find if there are any correlations between dental pathologies and isotope values. Our research is part of an ongoing project with the short title APOIKIA dealing with the Corinthian colonisation in the 7th century BC. The osteoarchaeological material comes from the Western Necropolis (WN) of Amvrakia which is one of the biggest and most undivided necropolises excavated so far in Greece. Amvrakia was officially founded around 640 BC during various colonisation endeavours of the Corinthians in Epirus, Greece. The methodology was designed on the basis of novel approaches to data collection and FAIR principles (Schmidt and Marwick 2020). The principle behind this is to maximise the longevity of data and maintain their expediency. In particular, we create R programming language scripts that correlate paleodemographic, -pathological and isotope data by following revised methodology and utilising free cloud webware.

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Funding We acknowledge support of this work by the project "ΑΠΟΙΚΙΑ: Ancient DNA analysis in novel multidisciplinary approach of ancient Corinthian colonization. Ancient Amvrakia and Ancient Tenea as demonstration examples." (MIS 5056266) which is implemented under the Special Action "Open Innovation In Culture" funded by the Operational Programme "Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation 2014-2020 (EPAnEK)" implemented under Regional Operational Programs of the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (NSRF 2014-2020) and co-financed by Greece and the European Union (European Regional Development Fund).

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