Use of the radiocarbon method for dating of skeletal remains of
a mass grave (Brno, the Czech Republic)

J 2020

Use of the radiocarbon method for dating of skeletal remains of a mass grave (Brno, the Czech Republic)

VYMAZALOVÁ, Kateřina, Lenka VARGOVÁ, Ladislava HORÁČKOVÁ, Jiri KALA, Michal PRICHYSTAL et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Use of the radiocarbon method for dating of skeletal remains of a mass grave (Brno, the Czech Republic)

Authors

VYMAZALOVÁ, Kateřina (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Lenka VARGOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Ladislava HORÁČKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Jiri KALA (203 Czech Republic), Michal PRICHYSTAL (203 Czech Republic), Ivo SVETLIK (203 Czech Republic), Katerina BRABCOVA PACHNEROVA (203 Czech Republic) and Veronika BRYCHOVA

Edition

Studia geophysica et geodaetica, NEW YORK, SPRINGER, 2020, 0039-3169

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10403 Physical chemistry

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Impact factor

Impact factor: 0.853

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14110/20:00115797

Organization unit

Faculty of Medicine

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11200-019-1217-4

UT WoS

000513448500007

Keywords in English

skeletal remains; radiocarbon dating; Napoleonic wars

Abstract

V originále

The dating of skeletal remains in archaeology is difficult, especially at findings without burial equipment. In this case, apart from literary and iconographic sources, anthropological and palaeopathological analyses, the radiocarbon dating method can also be used. We present an example where we used this procedure in the dating of the skeletal remains of an anonymous recent mass grave, found in the cellars of one of the houses in Brno (Czech Republic). On the basis of an assessment of the archaeological and anthropological context, in combination with radiocarbon dating, it could be concluded that the found skeletal remains were most likely of soldiers who died in the provisional military hospital as a result of injury or infection after the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805. An alternative hypothesis, that they are the remains of soldiers who died in the Battle of Hradec Kralove in 1866, was excluded by radiocarbon dating.

Citovat

VYMAZALOVÁ, Kateřina, Lenka VARGOVÁ, Ladislava HORÁČKOVÁ, Jiri KALA, Michal PRICHYSTAL, Ivo SVETLIK, Katerina BRABCOVA PACHNEROVA and Veronika BRYCHOVA. Use of the radiocarbon method for dating of skeletal remains of a mass grave (Brno, the Czech Republic). Studia geophysica et geodaetica. NEW YORK: SPRINGER, 2020, vol. 64, No 1, p. 143-152. ISSN 0039-3169. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11200-019-1217-4.

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VYMAZALOVÁ, Kateřina, Lenka VARGOVÁ, Ladislava HORÁČKOVÁ, Jiri KALA, Michal PRICHYSTAL, Ivo SVETLIK, Katerina BRABCOVA PACHNEROVA and Veronika BRYCHOVA. Use of the radiocarbon method for dating of skeletal remains of a mass grave (Brno, the Czech Republic). \textit{Studia geophysica et geodaetica}. NEW YORK: SPRINGER, 2020, vol.~64, No~1, p.~143-152. ISSN~0039-3169. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11200-019-1217-4.

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