PEOPLE OF THE TIMES OF CIST GRAVES AND FACE URNS – A STUDY ON SCELETAL REMAINS EXCAVATED IN 2008–2015 AT MULTICULTURAL CEMETERY IN CZARNÓWKO (SITE 5), LĘBORK DISTRICT (POMERANIA, POLAND)

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15120%2F19%3A73597278" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15120/19:73597278 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://puvodni.mzm.cz/Anthropologie/article.php?ID=2253" target="_blank" >http://puvodni.mzm.cz/Anthropologie/article.php?ID=2253</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.26720/anthro.18.10.05.1" target="_blank" >10.26720/anthro.18.10.05.1</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

PEOPLE OF THE TIMES OF CIST GRAVES AND FACE URNS – A STUDY ON SCELETAL REMAINS EXCAVATED IN 2008–2015 AT MULTICULTURAL CEMETERY IN CZARNÓWKO (SITE 5), LĘBORK DISTRICT (POMERANIA, POLAND)

Original language description

The graves from which the skeletal remains were removed date back to the early Iron Age, Hallstatt D, period and the early pre-Roman period, and were used for the burial of previously cremated bones by people of the Pomeranian Culture. Skeletal remains were removed from 38 graves: cist graves, cinerary urn graves with stone surrounds, cinerary urn graves with a stone cist-like surround, one cloche grave, destroyed cinerary urn graves, cavity graves with cinerary urns and cavity graves. Incinerated human bone remains were probably deposited in 46–48 urns or other vessels serving this purpose, as well as in a few cavity graves. In this study we explored plain and unornamented urns as well as face urns, which varied in terms of decorative patterns and representations of human faces. The surface of the vessels was decorated with stylized twigs of coniferous trees, solar and astral motifs, encircling rims, oblique lines or geometric patterns. Some urns were also embellished with jewellery. Bones explored from the above-listed graves probably belonged to at least 58 individuals, including 18 women, 15 men, 2 adults of undefined sex, 7 children and 16 individuals of undefined age and sex. The age-at-death was probably 30–40 years (mean 33.1 years) for women (n=18), and 36–48 years (mean 42.2 years) for men (n=16). The mean ante-mortem body height calculated based on the diameter of the long bone heads was 154.35 cm (Pearson&apos;s method) or 155–159 cm (method by Strzałko et al. 1973) in women (n=11), and 166.1 cm (Pearson’s method) or 170–174 cm (Strzałko et al. 1973) in men (n=9).

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

50404 - Anthropology, ethnology

Project

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Continuities

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Anthropologie-International Journal of Human Diversity and Evolution

ISSN

0323-1119

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

57 (2019)

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

127-140

UT code for WoS article

000500932000002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85074157712