At the End of Great Moravia: Skeletons from the Second Church Cemetery at Pohansko-Břeclav (9th–10th Century A.D.)

Description

This monograph summarizes the first anthropological survey of human skeletons excavated at the 2nd church cemetery in Pohansko-Břeclav (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. Front Cover Title Page Copyright Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1: The archaeological background of the skeletal remains: The second church at the northeast suburb at Pohansko Chapter 2: Methods of field excavation of the grave contexts at the Pohansko second church cemetery Chapter 3: The assessment of preservation of a skeletal sample excavated from the Pohansko second church cemetery Chapter 4: Dental and skeletal age-at-death for non-adult and adult individuals from the Pohansko second church cemetery Chapter 5: The assessment of sex for adult individuals from the Pohansko second church cemetery Chapter 6: Stature estimation for adults from the Pohansko second church cemetery Chapter 7: Body mass estimation for adults from the Pohansko second church cemetery Chapter 8: Summary of skeletal and dental inventory from the Pohansko second church cemetery Chapter 9: Observations of pathological changes in the skeletons from the Pohansko second church cemetery Chapter 10: Summary of osteometric data for the adult and non-adult individuals from the Pohansko second church cemetery Chapter 11: Skeletons from the Pohansko second church cemetery: Summary and conclusions 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 cemetery