ABSTRACT
Since 1911, archaeological excavations in various areas of the Prague Castle have revealed several ancient cemeteries submerged beneath constructions of later dates. As part of a review of the archaeological record of the Prague Castle, Dr. Jan Frolík located the human skeletal remains from these several excavations in a series of storage areas where they had been deposited over the years. The outstanding archaeological recovery and effective curation of these remains is a tribute to the uniformly high quality of Czech archaeological research. These human remains were evaluated to provide basic age and sex information to the archaeologists in order to enhance the interpretation of the field record. Early archaeological and biological data from this urban center in Bohemia, especially dating from the important period at the beginning of the Czech state (Frolík, 1994), enable comparisons to be made with contemporary medieval rural developments in this region. In turn, these developments in transitional Prague can be compared with
parallel processes of urbanization and state formation along the Middle Danube (see Christie, 1996) and elsewhere in this region.
