A sample of six cremated graves from the Lusatian Culture cemetery from Podlesie, site 5, has been subjected to a spatial analysis aimed at recognising anatomical provenance of bone fragments within the layers of the urn burial. Even though individual features have shown damage ranging from slight to severe, most of the burials have shown an indication of a repeated pattern, with skull fragments predominantly present in the upper layers (Chi2 = 43.968, df = 16, p < 0.001) and lower limb fragments accumulated in the lower parts of the urn (Chi2 = 28.635, df = 16, p = 0.027). In the case of the torso (the term used to describe postcranial axial skeletal fragments together with pectoral and pelvic girdles’ elements) and upper limb, the analysis has not shown statistically significant distribution between the layers. The analysis confirmed the advantage of the proposed method in determining the presence of the so-called ‘anatomical order’ within cremation burials.
A centuries-old history of relations between jesters with their rulers has been researched academically for 200 years. Incomplete sources do not make up a coherent picture of jesters’ functioning at the courts of Pomeranian rulers and the reconstruction of their changing fortunes is not easy. Research on the history of Pomeranian court jesters has been conducted by A. Haas, M. Wehrmann, H. Lemcke, Z. Fafius, M. Glińska, J. Kochanowska, M. Majewski, J. Pokora. The author analyses the stage of the creation of the ‘Hintz legend’ and his tombstone, contrasting it with other interpretations, especially the one presented by Jakub Pokora (1995).
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