Dr. T. Tóth szerk.: Paleoanthropological studies (Anthropologia Hungarica 8/1-2. Budapest, 1968)
ÁNTHROPOLOGIÁ HUNGARICA TOME VIII. 1968 No 1-2. Section Anthropologique du Musée d'Histoire Naturelle ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDIES ON A LATE ROMAN POPULATION AT MAJS, HUNGARY By KINGA K. ÉRY The cemetery' of the examined population, in the outskirts („Mer s e-dülő") of the village Majs, Comitat Baranya, was discovered by Dr. L.PAPP in 1963; he also excavated the first graves (PAPP 1964). The subsequent graves were excavated by a team led by Dr. A.BURGER in 1964-1965, during .which I have for a time also been present (BURGER 1965, 1966). It transpired during the excavation that about 50-60 per cent of the cemetery had in earlier times been destroyed.On the basis of coins from the Roman Empire and other object material in use in the territory of the Empire; A. BURGER inferred that the burials in the cemetery found place from the second half of the third till the end of the fourth centuries A.D. For her kind informations on the archeological and historical problems and the results of her Investigations, I express my sincere thanks to dr.ALICE BURGER also In this place. There were found in the cemetery the skeletal remains of 52 individuals, 46 of them burled whole and 8 cremated. The state of preservation of the bones is rather bad. According to the calculations expounded by ÉRY - KRALOVÁNSZKY - NEMESKÉRI (1963), only about one half of the skeletal material of the exposed graves remained (quantitative representative value 0,55), of which again hardly more than one half was suitable for measurements (qualitative representative value 0,32). The measurements were taken according to MARTIN (1928). In classifying the measurements and indices, I followed MARTIN'S (1928) and HUG's (1940) works. Stature was calculated according to PEARSON (1899),by the use of WOLANSKI*s (1953) nomogram. The calculated parameters of the examined skeletal material is contained in Table 11. Those of juvenile age were not included in the calculations. The individual metric data are to be found in Table 13. Age was determined for the adult findings (23 - x years) according to NEMESKÉRI - HARSÁNY I - ACS ADI (I960) and, using ACSÁDI - NEMESKÉRI* s (in press) corrections, on the basis of four age indicators: the ossification of the endocranial sutures (o) the spongiosa and upper shaft of humeral (H) and femoral (F) proximal epiphysis,as well as the symphyseal face of the pubis (S). In juvenile individuals (15-22 years), age was estimated, according to JOHNSTON (1961), by the ossification of the epiphyses; in infants (0-14 years) by the state of eruption of the teeth, using SCHRANZ's scheme (1959). Sex was determined - by the method of ERY - KRALOVANSZKY - NEMESKÉRI (1963) and in the case of measuring the ischio-pubis index following GAILLARD (1961 ) - by the analysis of 22 characters of the skeleton. In the morphological characteristics,
