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The aim of this paper is to present the current state of the research done on the population buried in two excavated necropolises in the region of Lucena (Córdoba, Spain): the late antiquity necropolis of “Cortijo Coracho” (4th – 8th centuries A.D.) and the medieval necropolis of Jewish origin “Ronda Sur” (10th – 11th centuries A.D.) Several paleodemographic analyses have been applied to these remains whose results have allowed us to make a comparison between the two of them and also with other Iberian populations. All these results show that the quality of life of the Jewish medieval population of Lucena was higher than the one of the previous ages (Hispano-roman); higher than the quality of life of other medieval peninsular populations, either Muslim or Christian –and even higher than modern ones-; and equivalent to contemporary populations in some aspects. Biometric studies have been carried out, including an estimation of the stature, as well as an analysis of clusters; all of them applied to the population of the late antiquity necropolis of “Cortijo Coracho”, fundamentally. It can be inferred from them that the slenderness of the late antiquity population, regarding particularly the sample of feminine individuals, relates them to populations of Hispano-Roman origin. However, the sample of men presents certain heterogeneity in its composition, which would imply the possible existence of masculine individuals of robust type in the same population, less slender than those of Hispano-Roman origin, who perhaps may have a Visigoth origin. For this reason the main initial hypothesis, according to which this population would be totally Hispano-Roman, is rejected, at least with the present data.
Tesis Univ. Granada. Programa Oficial de Doctorado en: Evolución Humana, Antropología Física y Forense