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Katharina
Katharina is a prehistoric archaeologist working at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Her main research interests include the archaeology of the human body, gender, identity and personhood as expressed through funerary practices and art. She specialises in the Bronze and Iron Ages of Europe. As a mother of two young boys, she gathered some practical experience in addition to her theoretical interest in motherhood.
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Tag Archives: Iron Age
The gruesome origins of the C-section
For a while now I have been collecting archaeological evidence for pregnant women of the Iron Age, as I proposed to speak on this topic at an Iron Age conference in November. As it turns out, graves of pregnant women … Continue reading
Posted in birth, death in childbirth
Tagged birth, c-section, childbirth, Iron Age, obstetric death, pregancy
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Giving birth in the Iron Age
Neither historical records nor image sources illustrate what life was like for much of human prehistory. From the early Iron Age in Central Europe (c.800-400 BC), however, human representations capture some snapshots of the lives of the elite. As I … Continue reading
Posted in birth
Tagged birth, human representations, Iron Age, Nesactium, Pieve d'Alpago, Poggio Colla
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Motherhood in prehistory 