Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic TY - JOUR JO - Anthropologie (Brno) TI - A Unique Accumulation of Human Skulls in an Archaeological Pit of the Middle Bronze Age AU - Dočkalová M Y1 - 1996 VL - 34 IS - 3 PB - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic SN - 0323-1119 SP - 343 EP - 350 KW - Middle Bronze Age (Tumulus Culture) KW - Bohemia KW - Velim site KW - Accumulation of human skulls KW - Traces of violence N2 - N2 - During archaeological excavations the most varied types of archaeological features are usually discovered, with various types of pottery or human and animal remains. Quite unique is the find of a pit at Velim in Bohemia, made in 1992, during the systematic excavation of this important Bronze Age site. The oval pit of rather small dimensions, yielded skulls of children, juvenile and adult individuals together with some animal bones. There were three complete skulls without mandibles (Nos. I, II, III), frontal bones and some fragments of facial skeleton of other (child and juvenile) individuals (Nos. IV,V). During laboratory treatment other fragments were reconstructed into a braincase (No. VI). Traces of violence were found on the remains of the child (No. V) and on the tibia of an adult individual. As to the animal bones found in the pit, there was a broken skull and a few other bones (iliac bone, sacrum) of a cow. ER -