Parish priest Josef Toufar died as a direct consequence of torture committed by Communist State Security Service agents, forcing him to confess that "miraculous" movement of crucifix above the main altar during the Holy Mass held in the Roman-Catholic church in Číhošť was staged by using a technical equipment. Josef Toufar was presumably buried in a mass grave at the cemetery in Prague-Ďáblice under a false name Josef Zouhar. In 2013 the Czech Bishops' Conference grant an approval to begin the process of his beatification. However, the beatification required the exhumation and identification of the remains. In this case report, we describe the process of searching, exhumation, and the combined A-STR/Y-STR DNA analysis of remains of Pater Josef Toufar. His identification was feasible due to kinship analysis: buccal swabs of three family members (niece, grand-niece, and grand-nephew) were available for testing.
- MeSH
- DNA Fingerprinting methods MeSH
- Clergy MeSH
- Exhumation MeSH
- Communism MeSH
- Humans MeSH
- Chromosomes, Human, Y * MeSH
- Microsatellite Repeats * MeSH
- Torture MeSH
- Crime Victims * MeSH
- Burial MeSH
- Pedigree MeSH
- Body Remains * MeSH
- Check Tag
- Humans MeSH
- Male MeSH
- Publication type
- Journal Article MeSH
- Case Reports MeSH
- Geographicals
- Czech Republic MeSH
- MeSH
- Exhumation MeSH
- Body Remains * diagnostic imaging MeSH
- Research MeSH
- Famous Persons MeSH
- Publication type
- Interview MeSH
Thirty-two skeletons from burial ground Bakheri chala were analysed macroscopically and X-ray for pathological conditions such as trepanation, traumatic injuries, infectious disease and dental pathology. This study has shown that average age at death was relatively high. Trepanation with rectangular sawing for the first time found in the Armenia at two individuals. Trauma to the skull was common, which suggests a high level of inter-personal violence. We here report a case of decapitation. Bakheri chala site showed a high frequency of auditory exostosis. The dental pathology conditions of this population were numerous. Agriculture introduced people to carbohydrates, or sugars, which affect the teeth and cause dental caries. The staple diet of ancient population from Shnogh river consisted of wine, bread, vegetables, and fruits. Males do show a slightly higher rate of wear than females possibly suggesting a greater proportion of bread in the diet of males.
Thirteen samples of ancient human dental calculus were analyzed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Samples came from ten adults from the necropolis Znojmo-Hradiště which is dated to the Great Moravian period (the end of the 9th and beginning of the 10th century AD). SEM allowed observation and measurement of the excavated calculus objects with submicrometer resolution. Therefore it was possible to estimate plant/vegetable fibers and all bacterial morphological types like rods, cocci, spirals and filamentous forms. This confirms high oral bacterial diversity of medieval agriculturalists which is in agreement with recent molecular studies, but without destruction of samples and with lower costs. Presence of plant/vegetable fibers in dental calculus validated the vegetable part of the diet of early medieval Slavs found directly in excavated human skeletons.
- Keywords
- Morava (Česko),
- MeSH
- Archaeology methods MeSH
- Bacteria isolation & purification MeSH
- History, Ancient MeSH
- Exhumation MeSH
- Humans MeSH
- Microscopy, Electron, Scanning methods MeSH
- Body Remains MeSH
- Dental Calculus * microbiology MeSH
- Check Tag
- History, Ancient MeSH
- Humans MeSH
- Publication type
- Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't MeSH
- Geographicals
- Czech Republic MeSH
