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In: T. Kühtreiber/R. Risy/G. Scharrer-Liška/C. Theune (Hrsg.), Leben mit dem Tod. Der Umgang mit Sterblichkeit in Mittelalter und Neuzeit. Beiträge der internationalen Tagung in St. Pölten 11. bis 15. September 2018. Beiträge zur Mittelalterarchäologie in Österreich 35 , 2020
This study presents for the first time the early medieval cemetery of Podersdorf am See in its landscape archaeological, diachronic context. The interdisciplinary methods applied show the cemetery in a completely unexpected dense spatial setting, with additional cemeteries, settlements and roads, over a time span reaching from the Roman Empire Period, through the Migration Period to the Middle Ages. Change in burial customs in Eastern Austria during the 1st millennium AD is discussed based on the case study of the early medieval cemetery at Podersdorf. Animal bones and composite bows are among the regular grave goods that remained in the graves there despite deliberate looting. The anthropological evaluation of the skeletons from Podersdorf allows these grave goods to be seen from a new perspective. A special feature was the discovery of a pit house directly north of the cemetery. The burial of five individuals inside the building, two of whom were positioned in a foetal posture, is unusual in this form in the second half of the 7th century. Using aDNA analysis, it was possible for the first time to prove family relationships between such „deviant burials“