Wealth or just job seekers: medieval skeletal series from Kutná Hora-Sedlec (Czech Republic) with a notable surplus of men

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985912%3A_____%2F23%3A00566948" target="_blank" >RIV/67985912:_____/23:00566948 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11320/25:JCANB63P

Result on the web

<a href="http://iansa.eu/papers/iansa-2023-01-brzobohata.pdf" target="_blank" >http://iansa.eu/papers/iansa-2023-01-brzobohata.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.24916/iansa.2023.1.6" target="_blank" >10.24916/iansa.2023.1.6</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Wealth or just job seekers: medieval skeletal series from Kutná Hora-Sedlec (Czech Republic) with a notable surplus of men

Original language description

Kutná Hora entered the 14th century as a rich, prosperous, and densely-populated city producing tons of silver. Such an amount of precious metal could not be mined and processed without an influx of people from other cities and rural areas and without the contribution of skilled specialists from abroad. Despite the apparent wealth of the city, its inhabitants (either settled or newly arrived) experienced and died during mortality crises. Evidence of such events was discovered in the Kutná Hora suburbs, where the medieval burial ground, including a significant component of mass burials, has been unearthed. In the data derived from pooled catastrophic and non-catastrophic burials (n=1785 individuals), a notable surplus of males has been identified with a striking imbalanced adult sex ratio of 149. After considering factors potentially influencing this value, we suggest that the figure likely mirrors the original population composition as a consequence of the inflow of men migrating to the town for labour/economic opportunities.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

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

2023

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica. Natural Sciences in Archaeology

ISSN

1804-848X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

79-92

UT code for WoS article

000977880900007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85149126605