Amputations in Slavonic population from Pohansko near Břeclav (Czech Republic)

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Authors	KONÁŠOVÁ Kateřina DROZDOVÁ Eva SMRČKA Václav
Year of publication	2011
Type	Article in Proceedings
Conference	Frühgeschichtliche Zentralorte in Mitteleuropa. Studien zur Archäologie Europas 14.
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Science
Citation
Field	Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology
Keywords	amputation; paleopathology; Slavs; Early Middle Ages
Description	Two skeletons of adult males from Pohansko near Břeclav (Czech Republic), show healed amputations. In the first case both bones of the left crus and in the second case all five metatarsal bones of the right foot were amputated. In both cases healing had been completed some time before death. In both cases is the amputation as a result of blade injury the best interpretation if we take into account also archaeological and historical data.
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