REKONŠTRUKCIA PODOBY TVÁRE MUŽA A ŽENY ZO STARŠEJ DOBY BRONZOVEJ

• Authors: Soňa Masnicová , Zora Miklíková , Radoslav Beňuš

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Facial reconstruction of a man and a woman from the Early Bronze Age

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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The article deals with a reconstruction of face from skulls of two adults – a middle-aged man from grave 80 and a young woman from grave 234 at the cemetery in Pata. The reconstruction drew on data acquired from osteological study. Drawings were made at two levels: norma frontalis (en face) and norma lateralis sinistra – for the man, norma frontalis (en face) and norma lateralis dextra – for the woman. The comparison of the recorded values of morphological and metric features of both individuals with average values recorded for the whole set indicates that typologically the man and the woman are typical representatives of the population which buried at the cemetery in Pata in the Early Bronze Age. The results of the anthropological study showed that morphologically it was a relatively homogeneous group of people. The recorded anthropological indexes, which generally characterise the proportionality of the body, sex and the affiliation of the individual to a certain morphological type, indicate that both man and woman from the cemetery belonged to the so-called robust leptodolichomorfs or “nordics” with long and narrow skulls. The drawn facial reconstructions and results of anthropological study in Pata add to our picture of the carriers of the Únětice culture, which is also spread on the territory of south-western Slovakia. The drawing reconstructions are to a certain extent influenced by the artistic creativity of their author, yet they were made on the basis of scientific data and render essential morphological features of the peoples of the Únětice culture.

Keywords

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SLOVAKIA; EARLY BRONZE AGE; ÚNĚTICE CULTURE; CEMETERY; FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION; PATA

• Publisher: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Archaeological Institute
• Journal: Študijné zvesti
• Year: 2010
• Issue: 48
• Pages: 81 - 89

Contributors

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Soňa Masnicová

• Katedra kriminalistiky a forenzných disciplín, Akadémia Policajného zboru v Bratislave, Sklabinská 1, 835 17 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

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Zora Miklíková

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Radoslav Beňuš