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The Health Status of the Early Medieval Population of Greater Moravia in Relation to Social and Economic Structures

SYSNO ASEP	0340661
Document Type	J - Journal Article
R&D Document Type	Journal Article
Subsidiary J	Ostatní články
Title	The Health Status of the Early Medieval Population of Greater Moravia in Relation to Social and Economic Structures
Author(s)	Velemínský, P. (CZ) Dobisíková, M. (CZ) Stránská, Petra (ARU-G)_{RID, SAI} Trefný, P. (CZ) Likovský, Jakub (ARU-G)_{RID, SAI}
Number of authors	5
Source Title	Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Medica, Monographia - ISSN 0567-8250 Roč. 56, č. 6 (2009), s. 91-101
Number of pages	11 s.
Language	eng - English
Country	CZ - Czech Republic
Keywords	Early Medieval period ; Great Moravian population ; social-economic structure ; demography ; Enamel Hypoplasy ; Cribra orbitalia ; Harris lines ; Dental health state ; Degenerative changes joints
Subject RIV	AC - Archeology, Anthropology, Ethnology
R&D Projects	GA206/07/0699 GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF)
CEZ	AV0Z80020508 - ARU-G (2005-2011)
Annotation	The focus of this research is the comparative assessment of the health status of three cemeteries of different socioeconomic status in the area surrounding the Mikulčice castle. We have compared about 850 skeletons from (1) the castle cemetery and (2) subcastle cemeteries in Mikulčice and (3) a cemetery from the poor village of Josefov located eight kilometres from Mikulčice. The following characteristics were examined: linear enamel defects, dental caries, cribra orbitalia, Harris lines, trauma, degenerative joint disease and occupation stress markers, sexual dimorphism and demographic estimators. For example: the incidence of hypoplastic defects is found mostly in individuals between the ages of 2 to 4 years. Cribra orbitalia appears more frequently in the rural Josefov cemetery. Inhabitants at the extramural settlement exhibit poorer dental health than people burried inside the castle.
Workplace	Institute of Archaeology (Prague)
Contact	Lada Šlesingerová, slesingerova@arup.cas.cz, Tel.: 257 014 412
Year of Publishing	2010

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