ANTROPOLOGICKÁ ANALÝZA POHREBISKA NITRIANSKEJ KULTÚRY ZO ZOHORA, OKR. MALACKY

• Authors: Alena Šefčáková

Title variants

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Anthropological analysis of the Nitra culture cemetery at Zohor (dpt. Malacky, Slovakia)

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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19 individuals (10 non-adults and 8 adults – including four women, three men, one adult and one unspecified individual) were identified during the analysis of 23 graves. Most of them, nine skeletal remains belonged to children aged 0.6 – 15 years and eight to older adults aged 30 – 59 years. Women died younger than men and all adults are older than 30 years. Their skulls appear to be long to very long, and narrow to very narrow, while they are similar to the Early Bronze Age skulls from other sites. Five women and a man have moderately robust arm bones, robust radii and moderately robust femora. According to the height calculated for six adults, they were all, except two women, tall. Cribra orbitalia occurred in three non-adult individuals. One child had injured skull, another one had deformed the left elbow joint and shortened the right femur. An increased number of dental caries (at least four) occurred in seven adult individuals. Even on the skulls of two adults, there were visible injuries. Other abnormalities or pathological changes occur only sporadically.

Keywords

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EARLY BRONZE AGE; CEMETERY; SKELETAL REMAINS; PALEODEMOGRAPHY; PALEOPATHOLOGY; NITRA CULTURE; CENTRAL EUROPE

• Publisher: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Archaeological Institute
• Journal: Slovenská archeológia (Slovak Archaeology)
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 62
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 293 – 314

Contributors

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Alena Šefčáková

• Slovenské národné múzeum, Prírodovedné múzeum, Antropologické oddelenie, Vajanského nábr. 2, P. O. BOX 13, 810 06 Bratislava, Slovak Republic