P. Konczewski, Katarzyna Martewicz, Ł. Orlicki, J. Szczurowski, Radosław Biel, Katarzyna Król, B. Kwiatkowska
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This paper presents forensic, bioarchaeological and historical research on eight human skulls discovered during the 2018 restoration of a nineteenth-century pastor’s tomb in the village of Gostków in Poland (which, until 1945, had been Giesmannsdorf in Germany). Local rumours suggested that the tomb had been used as a mass grave at the end of World War II for the remains either of war-crimes victims or of a murder-suicide incident. The research was undertaken at the request of the Fundacja Anna w Gostkowie (Anna Foundation in Gostków), which maintains the cemetery, and confirmed detailed witness accounts that the tomb contained the remains of two related German families in which some individuals had killed the others, including several children, and then themselves. The authors also discuss the phenomenon of suicides under war conditions and the cognitive, social and ethical problems of researching this topic.
本文介绍了2018年在波兰Gostków村(直到1945年，该村庄一直是德国的吉斯曼斯多夫)修复一座19世纪牧师坟墓期间发现的8个人类头骨的法医、生物考古学和历史研究。当地有传言说，这座坟墓在二战结束时被用作乱葬坑，埋葬的要么是战争罪受害者的遗体，要么是谋杀后自杀事件的受害者。该研究是应维护该墓地的Fundacja Anna w Gostkowie (Anna Foundation in Gostków)的要求进行的，并证实了详细的证人陈述，即坟墓中有两个相关的德国家庭的遗骸，其中一些人杀死了其他人，包括几个孩子，然后自杀。作者还讨论了战争条件下的自杀现象以及研究这一课题的认知、社会和伦理问题。
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The Journal of Contemporary Archaeology is the first dedicated, international, peer-reviewed journal to explore archaeology’s specific contribution to understanding the present and recent past. It is concerned both with archaeologies of the contemporary world, defined temporally as belonging to the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, as well as with reflections on the socio-political implications of doing archaeology in the contemporary world. In addition to its focus on archaeology, JCA encourages articles from a range of adjacent disciplines which consider recent and contemporary material-cultural entanglements, including anthropology, art history, cultural studies, design studies, heritage studies, history, human geography, media studies, museum studies, psychology, science and technology studies and sociology. Acknowledging the key place which photography and digital media have come to occupy within this emerging subfield, JCA includes a regular photo essay feature and provides space for the publication of interactive, web-only content on its website.
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