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Projevy křesťanského a předkřesťanského pohřebního ritu na středohradištním pohřebišti v Divákách, okr. Břeclav
| Title in English | Displays of Christian and pre-Christian burial customs in a Middle Hillfort Period cemetery at Diváky, Břeclav District |
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Studia archaeologica brunensia |
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| Field | Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology |
| Keywords | Early Middle Ages; Middle Hillfort Period; Great Moravia; cemetery; burial rites; Christianisation |
| Description | In the cemetery at Diváky, some changes in burial rites occurred which were probably induced by the gradual Christianisation of the rural population. Among evidence of pre-Christian burial rites at the cemetery at Diváky during the Middle Hillfort Period (9th – mid-10 century) can be included the remains of funerary feasts, grave inclusions in the form of entire animal skeletons, the fumigation of graves, and a contracted female burial at the periphery of the cemetery. |
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