BISERICA „SF. NICOLAE DINTR-O ZI” – DATE ANTROPOLOGICE
BISERICA „SF. NICOLAE DINTR-O ZI” – DATE ANTROPOLOGICE

Summary/Abstract: The archaeological researches carried out in 1971 and during the 2006-2007 period at the Bucharest “Sf. Nicolae Dintr-o Zi” Church (St. Nicholas From a Day Church), 22 Academiei Street, revealed 84 funerary complexes, most of them inside the church, datable from the second half of the 16th century, to the beginning of the 19th century. Out of these, twenty-six complexes (twenty tombs and six re-burials) were anthropologically analyzed, with the studied sample being, from the demographic point of view, typical of the medieval and modern cemeteries in the vicinity of Bucharest churches. The scant number of subadults in the batch is probably due to the archaeologist’s selection of skeletons for anthropological analysis, a selection of re-buried bones becoming also obvious, the bones of limbs and skull cap often being presented in greater quantity. Dental diseases, nutritional deficiencies, traces of infections, osteoarthritis and fractures are the most common pathological lesions in the analyzed sample.

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