anthropology - demography - Middel Age - sex - age

From medieval times to the end of the 2nd World War numerous German community lived in Brno (recent Moravian capital). The German community buried around St. Jakob´s church. During excavations more than 1000 graves were uncovered. The funeral activity began here in the 1st half of 13th century and continued to 18th century. The aim of this work consists in basic anthropological and demographical research of human skeletal material. Each skeleton was diagnosed by comlex appreciation of results of more used methods. Human skeletons were very incomplete and mostly fragmentary. Many grave contexts were formed by one main individual and some admixtures. This state of preservation was cause of impossibility to obtain adequate demographical data used for detailled sex and age analysis. To important findings we can count the relative high number of newborns and youngest children and several finds of fetal skeletons. In older (early medieval) necropoles these age categories are usually missing.