Life, Death, and Burial – Multidisciplinary Approach to Interpretation of Mediaeval and Early Modern Age Evidence
Апстракт
The combination of humanistic and scientific analyses provided a much more reliable and comprehensive interpretation of burials and helped resolving some very old research dilemmas. Addressing two separate problems, the article presents the examples of royal and military funerary practices from Serbia. Royal funerals are among the most important topics in European Mediaeval studies. They represent a complex set of phenomena, illustrating biological past (including aDNA profiles), habits and everyday activities of the buried royalties, and their social status and cultural identity, in many cases clearly confirmed in historical sources. On the other hand, archaeologically under-studied burials of soldiers and other participants in wars from the beginning of the Modern Ages provide ideal conditions for the development of theoretical conceptions and methodological tool-kits. Military burials analysed so far reveal the characteristic bone injuries, presence of infectious diseases, level of ...health protection of military personnel, entheses and bone deformations assigning the buried to infantry or cavalry, but also direct causes of death or execution. The observed phenomena make solid grounds for establishing health markers in soldiers of the early Modern Age.
Кључне речи:
mortuary archaeology / royalties / soldiers / palaeopathology / social status / identityИзвор:
5th International Conference of Mediaeval Archaeology (session: 3. Burial ritual and grave goods as a reflection of social status and/or identities od deceased), 2018, 29-Финансирање / пројекти:
- Процеси урбанизације и развоја средњовековног друштва (RS-MESTD-Basic Research (BR or ON)-177021)
Институција/група
Археолошки институт / Institute of ArchaeologyTY - CONF AU - Bikić, Vesna AU - Miladinović-Radmilović, Nataša PY - 2018 UR - http://rai.ai.ac.rs/handle/123456789/1063 AB - The combination of humanistic and scientific analyses provided a much more reliable and comprehensive interpretation of burials and helped resolving some very old research dilemmas. Addressing two separate problems, the article presents the examples of royal and military funerary practices from Serbia. Royal funerals are among the most important topics in European Mediaeval studies. They represent a complex set of phenomena, illustrating biological past (including aDNA profiles), habits and everyday activities of the buried royalties, and their social status and cultural identity, in many cases clearly confirmed in historical sources. On the other hand, archaeologically under-studied burials of soldiers and other participants in wars from the beginning of the Modern Ages provide ideal conditions for the development of theoretical conceptions and methodological tool-kits. Military burials analysed so far reveal the characteristic bone injuries, presence of infectious diseases, level of health protection of military personnel, entheses and bone deformations assigning the buried to infantry or cavalry, but also direct causes of death or execution. The observed phenomena make solid grounds for establishing health markers in soldiers of the early Modern Age. C3 - 5th International Conference of Mediaeval Archaeology (session: 3. Burial ritual and grave goods as a reflection of social status and/or identities od deceased) T1 - Life, Death, and Burial – Multidisciplinary Approach to Interpretation of Mediaeval and Early Modern Age Evidence SP - 29 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rai_1063 ER -
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Bikić, V.,& Miladinović-Radmilović, N.. (2018). Life, Death, and Burial – Multidisciplinary Approach to Interpretation of Mediaeval and Early Modern Age Evidence. in 5th International Conference of Mediaeval Archaeology (session: 3. Burial ritual and grave goods as a reflection of social status and/or identities od deceased), 29. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rai_1063
Bikić V, Miladinović-Radmilović N. Life, Death, and Burial – Multidisciplinary Approach to Interpretation of Mediaeval and Early Modern Age Evidence. in 5th International Conference of Mediaeval Archaeology (session: 3. Burial ritual and grave goods as a reflection of social status and/or identities od deceased). 2018;:29. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rai_1063 .
Bikić, Vesna, Miladinović-Radmilović, Nataša, "Life, Death, and Burial – Multidisciplinary Approach to Interpretation of Mediaeval and Early Modern Age Evidence" in 5th International Conference of Mediaeval Archaeology (session: 3. Burial ritual and grave goods as a reflection of social status and/or identities od deceased) (2018):29, https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rai_1063 .