Strong but not unbeatable: two cases of healed severe skull trauma in males buried in medieval mass graves (Kutná Hora-Sedlec, Czech Republic)

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://journals.iaepan.pl/fah/article/view/2919/2772" target="_blank" >https://journals.iaepan.pl/fah/article/view/2919/2772</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.23858/FAH34.2021.002" target="_blank" >10.23858/FAH34.2021.002</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Strong but not unbeatable: two cases of healed severe skull trauma in males buried in medieval mass graves (Kutná Hora-Sedlec, Czech Republic)

Original language description

This paper presents two cases of healed skull trauma recovered from medieval mass burial sites in Kutná Hora-Sedlec (Kutná Hora District/CZ). These recently unearthed burial pits are historically and contextually associated with two key catastrophes: (1) a famine in the early 14th century, and (2) the Black Death in the mid-14th century. The first skull presents evidence of survival from severe cranial injury with highly probable surgical intervention. The second one presents evidence of successful skull surgery, confirming the practice of trepanation performed by a skilled specialist in a given region at a given time in history. Although both individuals had been robust enough to withstand the pain and strain of the treatment, indicating considerable resilience to survive the skull trauma, they succumbed to mass infection or famine that killed a large number of inhabitants of this prominent medieval mining region.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60102 - Archaeology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA21-09637S" target="_blank" >GA21-09637S: Epidemics and famine in the life of inhabitants of medieval Kutná Hora: a bioarchaeological perspective</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Fasciculi Archaeologiae Historicae

ISSN

0860-0007

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

34

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2021-12-13

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

25-37

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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