Motherhood at Early Bronze Age Unterhautzenthal, Lower Austria
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F49777513%3A23330%2F18%3A43953458" target="_blank" >RIV/49777513:23330/18:43953458 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://www.austriaca.at/?arp=0x00390303" target="_blank" >http://www.austriaca.at/?arp=0x00390303</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1553/archaeologia102s71" target="_blank" >10.1553/archaeologia102s71</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Motherhood at Early Bronze Age Unterhautzenthal, Lower Austria
Original language description
This article utilises skeletal evidence (n = 57) from settlement features and graves at Unterhautzenthal, Lower Austria, to outline our methodological approach to researching motherhood in prehistory. Unterhautzenthal includes the grave of a pregnant teenager, a triple burial of a woman with two children and a family grave of a man, woman and baby; additional women’s graves include remains of neonates and young children. Comparing archaeological context information with osteobiographical data allows us to draw inferences about the social status of women and the ways Bronze Age motherhood was conceptualised. The archaeological approach includes a gender and age analysis of material culture and Social Index calculations. The osteological analyses include age at death, sex, body height, health indicators, and pathologies, with an emphasis on pelvic changes. Physical traces that may relate to strain through pregnancy and childbirth were explored in detail. In addition to morphological assessment of the entire skeletal collection, we applied tooth cementum annulation analysis, 14C dating, and δ13C/δ15N isotope analysis to selected individuals. These data, in conjunction with demographic modelling, enable us to draw conclusions about women’s age at first pregnancy and the average number of children per woman, as well as the cultural and social context of motherhood.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50402 - Demography
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Archaeologia Austriaca
ISSN
0003-8008
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
102
Issue of the periodical within the volume
December
Country of publishing house
AT - AUSTRIA
Number of pages
64
Pages from-to
71-134
UT code for WoS article
000457339600004
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85063042937