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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: pregnancy
Bony changes at the sacrum – can they give evidence on past pregnancies and parturition?
written by Doris Pany-Kucera, 12.9.2019 in Vienna Physical anthropologists have long desired to assess past pregnancies and births on human skeletal remains. They developed different methods, building on features of the pelvis that differ between male and female skeletons. However, … Continue reading
Posted in birth, methods, pelvic features, pregnancy, project progress
Tagged birth, childbirth, pelvic features, pregnancy
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The womb and the toad: a curious connection
In the 1930s, an intriguing object was found in a pit filled with the rubble of a late Bronze Age house at Maissau, Lower Austria. At first, it did not seem to differ much from the daub fragments of a … Continue reading
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Tagged art, beliefs, Bronze Age, bufo bufo, foetus, human representations, pregnancy, toad, womb
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Baby care simulator backfires
This week, the BBC headline Concerns raised over teenage pregnancy ‘magic dolls’ caught my attention. In a course of a programme to prevent teenage pregnancy, Western Australian girls were given baby dolls to look after that simulate the needs of … Continue reading
Klimt’s pregnancies
Gustav Klimt is one of the few artists who depicted pregnant women. They are intriguing works, reflecting on the beginning and end of life, the danger of childbirth as well as female and infant mortality. ‘Die Hoffnung’ I and II … Continue reading
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