Overview
This monograph summarizes the first anthropological survey of human skeletons excavated at the 2nd church cemetery in Pohansko-Breclav (Czech Republic). The cemetery was discovered in 2006 in a north-eastern suburb of Pohansko and represents one of the key pieces of evidence about changes in human society at the end of the Great Moravian Empire (9th-10th century), when Early Medieval societies transformed into a new political organization. The monograph provides a summary of the preservation, paleodemographic assessments and paleopathology of the adult and non-adult skeletons with respect to new developments in techniques for assessing age at death, sex, stature and body mass from the Early Medieval skeletal material. Also provided are detailed preservation and osteometric data for further application in bioarchaeology, skeletal anthropology and archaeology.0pt;line-height:115%; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri'>
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Author: Vladimír Sládek , Jirí Machácek
Publisher: BAR Publishing
Imprint: BAR Publishing
Dimensions:
Width: 21.00cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 29.70cm
Weight: 1.013kg
ISBN: 9781407315768
ISBN 10: 1407315765
Pages: 254
Publication Date: 23 January 2017
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Table of Contents
"Preface 1 The archaeological background of the skeletal remains: the second church at the northeast suburb at Pohansko by Jiri Machacek and Renata Prichystalova 2 Methods of field excavation of the grave contexts at the Pohansko second church cemetery by Renata Prichystalova 3 The assessment of preservation of a skeletal sample excavated from the Pohansko second church cemetery by Vladimir Sladek and Eliska Makajevova 4 Dental and skeletal age-at-death for non-adult and adult individuals from the Pohansko second church cemetery by Vladimir Sladek, Eliska Makajevova, and Margit Berner 5 The assessment of sex for adult individuals from the Pohansko second church cemetery by Vladimir Sladek, Eliska Makajevova, and Martin Hora 6 Stature estimation for adults from the Pohansko second church cemetery by Vladimir Sladek, Eliska Makajevova, and Martin Hora 7 Body mass estimation for adults from the Pohansko second church cemetery by Vladimir Sladek, Eliska Makajevova, and Martin Hora 8 Summary of skeletal and dental inventory from the Pohansko second church cemetery by Vladimir Sladek, Eliska Makajevova, Veronika Sabolova, and Margit Berner 9 Observations of pathological changes in the skeletons from the Pohansko second church cemetery by Margit Berner and Vladimir Sladek 10 Summary of osteometric data for the adult and non-adult individuals from the Pohansko second church cemetery by Martin Hora, Vladimir Sladek, and Eliska Makajevova 11 Skeletons from the Pohansko second church cemetery: summary and conclusions by Vladimir Sladek and Jiri Machacek Appendix 1: Summary of paleodemographic estimates for the Pohansko second church cemetery Appendix 2: The individual preservation drawings for the non-adult and adult individuals from the Pohansko second church cemetery Appendix 3: Paleopathological observations on the skeletal sample from the Pohansko second church cemetery5pt;font-family:""Verdana"",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'>"
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:0cm;line-height:115%;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace: none'><span style='mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri'>'The quality of the data is excellent and detailed. Even with different techniques for calculation you could use these data, as the basics are given in a convenient tabular way. . The work is well written and the statistical approaches are explained [in such a way] that even colleagues not so familiar with these calculation methods can understand the approach.' Dr Karin Wiltschke-Schrotta, <span style='mso-no-proof:yes'>Natural History Museum, Vienna<span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: Times New Roman ,serif; mso-no-proof:yes'> <p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:105%;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri'> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size: 8.5pt;font-family: Verdana ,sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'>
'The quality of the data is excellent and detailed. Even with different techniques for calculation you could use these data, as the basics are given in a convenient tabular way. . The work is well written and the statistical approaches are explained [in such a way] that even colleagues not so familiar with these calculation methods can understand the approach.' Dr Karin Wiltschke-Schrotta, Natural History Museum, Vienna
Author Information
"Vladimir Sladek (born in 1969 in Brno, Czech Republic) is an associate professor at Charles University in Prague. He obtained a PhD degree at University of Bordeaux (2000). His research is focused on human evolution, postcranial variation in Holocene humans, paleodemographic assessments and human taphonomy. Jiri Machacek (born 1971 in Nove Mesto na Morave, Czech Republic) is a full professor at Masaryk University Brno and Head of the Department of Archaeology and Museology. He has published on medieval archaeology and computer applications in archaeology. He is the recipient of an Otto Grundler Travel Award (WMU Kalamazoo). Contributors Margit Berner is a curator and scientist at the Department of Anthropology at the Natural History Museum in Vienna and also teaches at the University of Vienna. Her main fields of research and publications include osteology, paleopathology, biomechanical analysis of prehistoric skeletons, history of anthropology and museology. Martin Hora (born 1983 in Slany, Czech Republic) is a PhD student at the Department of Anthropology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague. He studies locomotion and manipulation in past human populations using motion analysis of living people, biomechanical modelling and past human skeletons. Eliska Makajevova (born 1987 in Most, Czech Republic) is a PhD student of Anthropology at Charles University in Prague (thesis title: The effect of footwear use in human bipedal locomotion: foot morphology and biomechanics). She is interested in human locomotion, human osteology and paleodemographic assessments. Renata Prichystalova holds a master's degree in Archaeology and History (1999) and a PhD degree in Archaeology (2012) from Masaryk University in Brno. She is a member of the 0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:""Times New Roman"",serif'>Pohansko research team and focuses on funeral archaeology; she has 0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:""Times New Roman"",serif'>studied several early medieval burial grounds (Breclav-Pohansko - southern suburb, Olomouc - Nemilany). Veronika Sabolova (born 1990 in Vranov nad Toplou, Slovakia) is a full-time PhD student in the Bone Tissue Anthropology Laboratory at Charles University in Prague. Her research interests involve bone taphonomy and histology."
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