Locals or Migrants? Strontium Isotope Analysis of Two North-South Oriented Great Moravian Graves

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00023272%3A_____%2F23%3A10136099" target="_blank" >RIV/00023272:_____/23:10136099 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00094862:_____/23:N0000099 RIV/00216208:11310/23:10466094

Result on the web

<a href="http://iansa.eu/papers/iansa-2023-01-fojtova.html" target="_blank" >http://iansa.eu/papers/iansa-2023-01-fojtova.html</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.24916/iansa.2023.1.5" target="_blank" >10.24916/iansa.2023.1.5</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Locals or Migrants? Strontium Isotope Analysis of Two North-South Oriented Great Moravian Graves

Original language description

Migration has been used as one explanation for graves that deviate from the prevailing orientation and structure. Graves oriented in the north-south direction (i.e., deviating from the customary contemporary west-east orientation) at the Great Moravian and early medieval burial grounds of Přemyslid Bohemia and Moravia have attracted the attention of archaeologists for more than 100 years. These are most often interpreted as the graves of foreigners, based on the assumption that different burial rites indicate immigrants, but this has not been confirmed or refuted with empirical evidence. With this study, we have taken the first step towards testing the validity of this hypothesis. Samples from the dental enamel of the permanent molars of two individuals (H 16/2018 and H 18/2018) from the burial site &quot;Na Valách&quot;, located at the Great Moravian central site in Staré Město, were subjected to stable strontium isotope analysis. This analysis can help to assess the likelihood of mobility for these individuals. From the results obtained, it is not possible to confirm the non-local origin of either of the individuals, although in the case of H 16/2018 we may theoretically consider it. However, to definitively reject or confirm the hypothesis of a non-local origin of the people buried along the north-south azimuths, future analysis of a much larger sample size will be necessary

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60102 - Archaeology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica – Natural Sciences in Archaeology

ISSN

1804-848X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

71-77

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85149127210