Use of the radiocarbon method for dating of skeletal remains of a mass grave (Brno, the Czech Republic)
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61389005%3A_____%2F20%3A00522622" target="_blank" >RIV/61389005:_____/20:00522622 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/48511005:_____/20:N0000021 RIV/00216224:14110/20:00115797
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s11200-019-1217-4" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/s11200-019-1217-4</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11200-019-1217-4" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11200-019-1217-4</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Use of the radiocarbon method for dating of skeletal remains of a mass grave (Brno, the Czech Republic)
Original language description
The dating of skeletal remains in archaeology is difficult, especially at findings without burial equipment. In this case, apart from literary and iconographic sources, anthropological and palaeopathological analyses, the radiocarbon dating method can also be used. We present an example where we used this procedure in the dating of the skeletal remains of an anonymous recent mass grave, found in the cellars of one of the houses in Brno (Czech Republic). On the basis of an assessment of the archaeological and anthropological context, in combination with radiocarbon dating, it could be concluded that the found skeletal remains were most likely of soldiers who died in the provisional military hospital as a result of injury or infection after the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805. An alternative hypothesis, that they are the remains of soldiers who died in the Battle of Hradec Kralove in 1866, was excluded by radiocarbon dating.
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
10403 - Physical chemistry
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000728" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000728: Ultra-trace isotope research in social and environmental studies using accelerator mass spectrometry</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Studia geophysica et geodaetica
ISSN
0039-3169
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
64
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
143-152
UT code for WoS article
000513448500007
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85077690396