Dr. T. Tóth szerk.: Etudes d'anthropologie historique concernant le bassin du Danube moyen (Anthropologia Hungarica 7/1-2. Budapest, 1966)

A demographic surveyIn the demographic analysis of the population, one should also bear in mind that our statements refer exclusively to the subgroup represented by the skeletal findings. The basic demographic data are given in Table I. I have used a classification per age-groups, in divisions of 5 years. The first column represents the various age-groups, the second contains the number of cases /N/, the third shows frequency percentages /$>/ as related to the entire population. The fourth column displays the survival percentage of the respective age-group as related to the preceding ones, if the expected survival at birth is considered as 100 /4,16/. The Table gives the data collectively, and also subdivided per males and females. Table I. Age Group Total Males Females Age Group N * Surviva? • N * Survival N Survival 0-4 26 24,5 100 5-9 11 10,3 75,5 10-14 2 1,8 65,2 15-19 4 3,7 63,4 * 20-24 6 5,6 59,7 3 10,0 100 3 8,5 100 25-29 13 12,2 54,1 5 16,6 90,0 8 25,1 91,530-34 16 15,3 41,9 7 23,3 73,4 9 28,5 66,4 35-39 7 6,6 26,6 3 10,0 50,1 4 11,4 37,9 40-44 7 6,6 20,0 5 16,6 40,1 2 5,7 26,5 45-49 5 4,7 13,4 2 6,6 23,4 3 8,5 20,8 50-54 5 4,7 8,7 1 3,3 16,9 4 11,4 12,3 55-59 5 4,7 4,0 4 10,3 13,6 1 2,8 0,9 60-0 1 0,9 0,9 1 2.8 0,9 Sum total: 108 30 35 The analysis of the data shows that the children represent more than onethird of the dead. Mortality is extremely high in the age-group Inf ans I; this rate decreases later. Toward the end of age-group Inf ans II, mortality is the lowest, but again increasing in the age-group Juvenile. The deceased older Juvenila females /18-20 years/ already belong to the biologically reproductive phase, and thus are relegable, from this point of view, to the next group. Between the males and the females, there is a 7 per oent excess for the advantage of the latter. This excess might be taken a's proportionate. Mortality is the highest in the years 30-35 in the males, and in the years 25-34 in the females. Twice as many females die in the group Adult than in the group Mature. After that, there is a sudden decrease for the females, and the rate increases again in the years 50-55. If one oonsiders that the former phase means the very reproductive one for the females,the assumption that the traumas, respectively hygiene responsible in connexion with childbirth comes immediately to the fore. This seems to be corroborated by the decrease in mortality above •forty years of age, and its increase, definable as normal, above fifty. More males than females attain the mature age-group, but the fact that only