Resumen de Bones, teeth, and estimating age of perinates: Carthaginian infant sacrifice revisited
J. H. Schwartz, F. D. Houghton, L. Bondioli, R. Macchiarelli
Writing about the �Tophet�, a children's cemetery in Carthage, Smith et al. argued in these pages that the age distribution of the children peaks at 1�1.49 months, supplying �another link in the chain of evidence�funerary practices, texts, iconography�that supports the interpretation of the Phoenician Tophets as ritual sites set aside for infant sacrifice� (2011: 871). In this they had challenged Jeffrey Schwartz and colleagues, who previously argued (2010) that �skeletal remains from Punic Carthage do not support systematic sacrifice of infants�. Here Schwartz et al. restate their position for Antiquity readers, showing that the verdict on the Phoenician practice of child sacrifice is, at best, not proven
