Author/Editor		Zupanič-Slavec, Zvonka
Title		Družinska povezanost grofov Celjskih: identifikacijska in epigenetska raziskava njihovih lobanj
Translated title		Family interlinkage of the counts of Celje: an identificational and epigenetic study on their skulls
Type		monografija
Place		Ljubljana
Publisher		ZRC SAZU
Publication year		2002
Volume		str. 276
ISBN		961-6358-60-X
Language		slo
Abstract		The interdisciplinary research on the Counts of Celje is basically divided into three parts: in the first part we used the historiographic methods to collect and critically evaluate the necessary historical and genealogical data, in the second part we identified the skulls by sex and age, and in the third part we compared the historiographic and identification data and deduced the identity and family relationship. The Counts of Celje reached the summit of power between the years 1350 and 1450. At that time, they buried the dead family members from Frederic I. to Ulric IL, from 1354 to 1456, in the Minorite church in Celje. When, after the fire, the church was renovated in 1811, they opened the family vault, numbered the skulls by a still unknown principle and stored them behind the main altar. In 1956, all 18 skulls were transferred to the Provincial Museum. We do not know exactly who was buried in the vault and when. We studied the historical data, abstracts of original documents of the family and other authentic written records to identify the place and time of the burial of individual family members and thus anticipate whose remains were kept together. We also tried to obtain the biographical data of the family members to find out their age, appearance, facial and head peculiarities, illnesses they had suffered or died of, in a word, anything that would help us identify the skulls. By the identification of skulls we obtained the data on life expectancy and sex, nutritional habits, health, degeneration signs, injuries, individual, as well as common face and skull characteristics, stomatologic and orthodontic characteristics of the upper jaw and upper part of the face and many other details. We used the methodology of forensic scienee, roentgenology, anthropology, stomatology, palopathology, epigenetics and genetics. (Abstract truncated at 2000 characters).
Descriptors		FAMILY PEDIGREE CRANIOMETRY SKULL AGE DETERMINATION BY SKELETON HEAD INJURIES SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA HISTORY OF MEDICINE, 15TH CENT. FORENSIC MEDICINE