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Darrera modificació: 2022-01-10
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Brzobohatá, Hana - Frolíka, Jan - Zazvonilová, Eliška, "Bioarchaeology of Past Epidemic-and Famine-Related Mass Burials with Respect to Recent Findings from the Czech Republic", Intedisciplinaria Archaeologica Natural Sciences in Archaeology, 10/1 (2019), (pubicació electrònica).
- Resum
- Irrespective of the reason for breaking usual burial customs, mass graves represent a valuable archive of population data over a short period, and thus offer a vast amount of information for bioarchaeological research. Herein, we present a selective review of research on past epidemic and famine die-offs and of new interdisciplinary approaches in this field of study. We summarize the discoveries of epidemic - and famine-related graves that are temporally and spatially restricted to the medieval/early modern Czech territory, paying special attention to recently unearthed mass burials in Kutná Hora-Sedlec. These burial pits are historically and contextually associated with a famine in the early 14th century and with the Black Death in the mid-14th century. To our knowledge, they represent the largest set of medieval mass graves not only in the Czech Republic but also on a European scale.
- Matèries
- Arqueologia
Medicina - Pesta i altres malalties
Història - Enterraments
- URL
- https://www.academia.edu/40098944/Bioarchaeology_of ...
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