Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - Dismembering, filleting and evisceration of human bodies in a Bronze Age site in Moravia, Czech Republic
AU  - Jelínek J
Y1  - 2012
VL  - 50
IS  - 2
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 209
EP  - 226
KW  - Early Bronze Age
KW  - Únìtice Culture
KW  - Human sacrifice
KW  - Cutmarks
N2  - 
N2  - Human remains found in the Early Bronze Age refuse pits at Cezavy Hill, South Moravia, are described. Special attention is paid to the skeletons of two individuals: numerous cutmarks demonstrate the dismembering, filleting and evisceration of the cadavers. The find is interpreted as a part of the complex ritual showing earlier (Eneolithic) roots and later (Iron Age) continuity, illustrating the social relations in the Bronze Age. This article is a reprint of a previously published article (Jelínek J., 1993: Anthropologie (Brno) 31, 3: 99-114). 
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