In:
Antiquity, Antiquity Publications, Vol. 93, No. 370 ( 2019-08), p. 1009-1025
Abstract:
The discovery of a tenth-century AD high-status burial at Prague Castle in 1928 led to multiple identifications in the context of two world wars and the Cold War. Recognised variously as both a Viking and Slavonic warrior according to Nazi and Soviet ideologies, interpretation of the interred individual and associated material culture were also entangled with the story of the burial's excavator, the remains and commemorative monuments of two Czech Unknown Soldiers and the creation of the Czechoslovak state. This epic narrative reflects the circumstances of Czechoslovakia and Central Europe across the twentieth century.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0003-598X
,
1745-1744
DOI:
10.15184/aqy.2019.107
Language:
English
Publisher:
Antiquity Publications
Publication Date:
2019
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2031736-0
SSG:
6,14
SSG:
6,11
