Women´s Work? Findings from the Neolithic chert mines in the “Krumlovský les”, South Moravia

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Women´s Work? Findings from the Neolithic chert mines in the “Krumlovský les”, South Moravia
Original language description
Krumlovský les revealed one of the largest mining fields in Europe dated from the Mesolithic to the Hallstatt period. Quarrying culminated in the Early Bronze Age, when the local Jurassic chert, re-deposited in the Miocene sands, was extracted from hundreds of shafts up to 8 m deep, with most of the production material left at the site. The largest shafts of the Late Lengyel culture were located on a slope below a re-deposited boulder. Shaft no. 4 yielded two skeletons of females; the lower one had a newborn placed on her breasts. Both women were found to be the shortest of the then population as a whole, and they were weak, diseased, and poorly fed during their childhood. By contrast, as adults they were fed with meat and carried out heavy work, which is corroborated by strongly marked muscle attachments and vertebral degeneration. The hypothesis that in the then patriarchy extracted labour from lower status individuals who toiled in the mines. However ritual aspects cannot be excluded: the Earth is of female gender, and as such will more willingly accept women than men… but why exactly the smallest ones?
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Between History and Archaeology. Papers in honour of Jacek Lech
ISBN
978 1 78491 772 2
Number of pages of the result
6
Pages from-to
43-48
Number of pages of the book
516
Publisher name
Archaeopress Publishing Ltd.
Place of publication
Oxford
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