Archeologický výzkum augustiniánské hrobky - Archäologen in der Augustinergruft
Archaeological research on the Augustinian tomb

Author(s): Marek Peška, Antonín Zůbek
Subject(s): Archaeology, Health and medicine and law, Demography and human biology
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Gregor Johann Mendel; tomb; Augustinian tomb; archaeology;
Summary/Abstract: The archaeological research during the exhumation of the remains of Gregor Johann Mendel was carried out by a team of archaeologists from Archaia Brno in cooperation with the Department of Archaeology and Museology of the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University. The two institutions had cooperated on several previous projects. The exhumation of human skeletal remains has become an almost daily practice for Archaia’s employees since the establishment of the company’s Brno office. Over the quarter of a century of its existence, it has recovered the remains of thousands of buried individuals on many occasions, mostly as part of rescue archaeological excavations in Brno carried out in connection with various construction activities that disrupted prehistoric and early medieval burial sites or high medieval or modern cemeteries. Specific burial sites such as ossuaries, church crypts and mass graves have also been investigated in recent decades (Holub et al., 2006; Merta & Sedláčková, 2013; Zůbek, 2013, 2018; Živný, 2010). However, the research in retrieving the remains of Gregor Johann Mendel was exceptional in two ways. Unlike these other activities, this project took place on the grounds of a functioning cemetery and its subject was the remains of a known person, compared to the prior exhumations from the graves of multitudes of nameless deceased.

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