Bioarchaeology of past epidemic- and famine-related mass burials with respect to recent findings from the Czech Republic
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985912%3A_____%2F19%3A00508777" target="_blank" >RIV/67985912:_____/19:00508777 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11310/19:10414531
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.iansa.eu/papers/IANSA-2019-01-brzobohata.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.iansa.eu/papers/IANSA-2019-01-brzobohata.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.24916/iansa.2019.1.6" target="_blank" >10.24916/iansa.2019.1.6</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Bioarchaeology of past epidemic- and famine-related mass burials with respect to recent findings from the Czech Republic
Original language description
Irrespective of the reason for breaking usual burial customs, mass graves represent a valuable archive of population data over a short period, and thus offer a vast amount of information for bioarchaeological research. Herein, we present a selective review of research on past epidemic and famine die-offs and of new interdisciplinary approaches in this field of study. We summarize the discoveries of epidemic- and famine-related graves that are temporally and spatially restricted to the medieval/early modern Czech territory, paying special attention to recently unearthed mass burials in Kutná Hora-Sedlec. These burial pits are historically and contextually associated with a famine in the early 14th century and with the Black Death in the mid-14th century. To our knowledge, they represent the largest set of medieval mass graves not only in the Czech Republic but also on a European scale.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60102 - Archaeology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica. Natural Sciences in Archaeology
ISSN
1804-848X
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
10
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
79-87
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85078621813