Covered Mass Grave Sites in Slovenia

The Amount of Archaeological Work Involved in Unearthing Grave Sites and Determining their Existence

Authors

  • Pavel Jamnik Ministrstvo za notranje zadeve, Generalna policijska uprava, SI-1501 Ljubljana

Keywords:

Slovenia, World War II, victims of war, mass grave sites, methodology, archaeology, stratigraphy

Abstract

The article presents the efforts of the Commission of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia for Covered Grave Sites to establish the methodological framework for the realisation of reburial and probing the post-war mass grave sites. It also presents the scope of archaeological work, acceptable for activities at such grave sites, and the reservations about the idea of introducing the so-called military archaeology for the exploration of mass grave sites in Slovenia are outlined.

Published

2008-01-01

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