Women´s Work? Findings from the Neolithic chert mines in the “Krumlovský les”, South Moravia

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Women´s Work? Findings from the Neolithic chert mines in the “Krumlovský les”, South Moravia

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Krumlovský les revealed one of the largest mining fields in Europe dated from the Mesolithic to the Hallstatt period. Quarrying culminated in the Early Bronze Age, when the local Jurassic chert, re-deposited in the Miocene sands, was extracted from hundreds of shafts up to 8 m deep, with most of the production material left at the site. The largest shafts of the Late Lengyel culture were located on a slope below a re-deposited boulder. Shaft no. 4 yielded two skeletons of females; the lower one had a newborn placed on her breasts. Both women were found to be the shortest of the then population as a whole, and they were weak, diseased, and poorly fed during their childhood. By contrast, as adults they were fed with meat and carried out heavy work, which is corroborated by strongly marked muscle attachments and vertebral degeneration. The hypothesis that in the then patriarchy extracted labour from lower status individuals who toiled in the mines. However ritual aspects cannot be excluded: the Earth is of female gender, and as such will more willingly accept women than men… but why exactly the smallest ones?

Název v anglickém jazyce

Women´s Work? Findings from the Neolithic chert mines in the “Krumlovský les”, South Moravia

Popis výsledku anglicky

Krumlovský les revealed one of the largest mining fields in Europe dated from the Mesolithic to the Hallstatt period. Quarrying culminated in the Early Bronze Age, when the local Jurassic chert, re-deposited in the Miocene sands, was extracted from hundreds of shafts up to 8 m deep, with most of the production material left at the site. The largest shafts of the Late Lengyel culture were located on a slope below a re-deposited boulder. Shaft no. 4 yielded two skeletons of females; the lower one had a newborn placed on her breasts. Both women were found to be the shortest of the then population as a whole, and they were weak, diseased, and poorly fed during their childhood. By contrast, as adults they were fed with meat and carried out heavy work, which is corroborated by strongly marked muscle attachments and vertebral degeneration. The hypothesis that in the then patriarchy extracted labour from lower status individuals who toiled in the mines. However ritual aspects cannot be excluded: the Earth is of female gender, and as such will more willingly accept women than men… but why exactly the smallest ones?

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C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60102 - Archaeology

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2018

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Between History and Archaeology. Papers in honour of Jacek Lech

ISBN

978 1 78491 772 2

Počet stran výsledku

6

Strana od-do

43-48

Počet stran knihy

516

Název nakladatele

Archaeopress Publishing Ltd.

Místo vydání

Oxford

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