Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - INHABITANTS OF THE SOUTHERN SUBURB
OF THE EARLY MEDIEVAL STRONGHOLD AT
POHANSKO: UPDATED DEMOGRAPHIC STUDY
AU  - Boberová K
Y1  - 2019
VL  - 57
IS  - 2
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 141
EP  - 148
KW  - Pohansko – Southern Suburb – Early Medieval – Demography – Mortality – aDNA
N2  - 
N2  - The southern suburb counts among the largest locations excavated at Pohansko where about two hundred
graves were explored. It is dated to the 9th century with a possible overlap to the beginning of the 10th century. Skeletal
material (in present times 190 skeletons from 205 graves are preserved) was mainly excavated during archaeological
rescue excavations in 1975–1979. The skeletal remains from the southern suburb are poorly preserved, the bones are
fragmentary and in most cases unidentifiable. Using the traditional anthropological methods of sex estimation, 40
adult females and 27 adult males were identified. Later, modern genetic methods of sex determination were used. The
analysis of aDNA of skeletal remains was especially significant when the sex of children was determined. Using these
two approaches, 30 adult males, 55 adult females, 28 boys and 20 girls were identified. The sex of the remaining 57
skeletons (both children and adults) was impossible to define by any of the methods used. The results provide new
information about the demography of this burial site and they have been compared with demographic data of other
equally dated burial sites.
ER  -