Wealth or Just Job Seekers: Medieval Skeletal Series from Kutná Hora-Sedlec (Czech Republic) with a Notable Surplus of Men

IF 0.2 Q4 ANTHROPOLOGY Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica Pub Date : 2023-02-17 DOI:10.24916/iansa.2023.1.6
H. Brzobohatá, J. Frolík, Filip Velímský
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Kutná Hora entered the 14th century as a rich, prosperous, and densely-populated city producing tons of silver. Such an amount of precious metal could not be mined and processed without an influx of people from other cities and rural areas and without the contribution of skilled specialists from abroad. Despite the apparent wealth of the city, its inhabitants (either settled or newly arrived) experienced and died during mortality crises. Evidence of such events was discovered in the Kutná Hora suburbs, where the medieval burial ground, including a significant component of mass burials, has been unearthed. In the data derived from pooled catastrophic and non-catastrophic burials (n=1785 individuals), a notable surplus of males has been identified with a striking imbalanced adult sex ratio of 149. After considering factors potentially influencing this value, we suggest that the figure likely mirrors the original population composition as a consequence of the inflow of men migrating to the town for labour/economic opportunities.
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财富或仅仅是求职者:来自库特纳霍拉-塞德莱克(捷克共和国)的中世纪骨骼系列,男性显着过剩
库特纳霍拉进入14世纪时是一个富裕、繁荣、人口稠密的城市,盛产白银。如果没有来自其他城市和农村地区的人员涌入,没有国外熟练专家的贡献,就不可能开采和加工如此数量的贵金属。尽管这座城市看起来很富裕,但它的居民(无论是定居的还是新来的)都经历了死亡危机。这些事件的证据是在库特纳霍拉郊区发现的,在那里发现了中世纪的墓地,包括大量埋葬的重要组成部分。在汇总灾难性和非灾难性埋葬(n=1785个人)的数据中,男性明显过剩,成年性别比明显不平衡,为149。在考虑了可能影响这一数值的因素后,我们认为这一数字很可能反映了由于男性移民到城镇寻找劳动力/经济机会而导致的原始人口构成。
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Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica
Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica Arts and Humanities-Archeology (arts and humanities)
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