Increased deposition of skeletal remains in the ossuary in Nížkov during the 14th century, 14C dated with typhoid fever

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11110%2F20%3A10422847" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11110/20:10422847 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00064165:_____/20:10422847

Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=yvgelCT1De" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=yvgelCT1De</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

—

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Increased deposition of skeletal remains in the ossuary in Nížkov during the 14th century, 14C dated with typhoid fever

Original language description

The ossuary in Nížkov near Žďár nad Sázavou, on the Czech-Moravian border, contains approximately five to eight thousand skeletal remains. Several tibial plateaus and femoral condyles from Nížkov (N13) exhibited probable signatures of the rheumatoid form of typhoid osteomyelitis. The pilot research of 2016 consisted of the necessary remediation of the skeletal material in the ossuary. Skeletal remains were found to be firmly attached to the pillars of the ossuary; in cases where the pillars would have needed to be disassembled or the specimens disrupted, photographs were taken. In addition, there are several bones with pathological changes embedded in these pillars which cannot be transferred to laboratories for analysis. Photographic documentation of the ossuary exteriors, bone pillars and the pathologies present were produced in the pilot study. 14C dating showed that the deposition of skeletal remains in the ossuary in Nížkov occurred not only during Theresian Wars, as stated in the local chronicles, but also in the 14th century. The causes of the deposition of skeletal remains in the 14th century, the Little Ice Age, are discussed here. Newly, a sample with typhoid osteomyelitis - a tibial fragment indicating a typhoid epidemic - was radiocarbon (14C) dated into this period.

Czech name

—

Czech description

—

Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

—

OECD FORD branch

10600 - Biological sciences

Project

—

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Pohybové ústrojí. Pokroky ve výzkumu, diagnostice a terapii [online]

ISSN

2336-4777

e-ISSN

—

Volume of the periodical

27

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

81-91

UT code for WoS article

—

EID of the result in the Scopus database

—