ABSTRACT
Cooperation between anthropologists and archaeologists has a long history, so much so in the past that with many individual scholars, especially in the 19th century, it was not possible to make any distinction. In Czechoslovakia the cemeteries of the Old Slavic period, from the 7th to the 11th centuries, offer nearly ideal conditions for palaeodemographic research. Palaeodemographic analyses almost always display an insufficient number of infant skeletons, but sometimes also there is a conspicuous imbalance between the numbers of males and females. Palaeodemography is a potential meeting point, since its results are of importance to both sides even though each has its own forms of analysis. Medieval cemeteries from the territory of Czechoslovakia providing data sets usable for palaeodemographical analysis. There are 32 Old Slavic skeletal assemblages from the territory of Czechoslovakia which satisfy the criteria of completeness as well as size.
