Folia archeologica 36.

Lovag Zsuzsa: Egy XI. századi bronz korpusz

206 ISTVÁN VÖRÖS Table 3. Number of Skeletal elements of wild large Bovid of some medieval sites in Europe Animal Site No. A 1. A 2. ,A" 3. ,A" 4. A 9. A/B 10. A 11. A 12. ,A" 13. A/B A/B A/B A/B 15. 16. 17. 18. A 19. A 20. „А" 21/ 22. horn-core cranial fr. mandibula teeth 1 1 1 1 1 — 2 2 — 1 1 — — — — — — 8 — vertebrae costae 4 8 — 6 7 — — — 1 8 4 3 scapula humerus radius ulna carpalia metacarpus — — 3 1 1 — 1 6 4 4 — — — 1 3 5 2—1 5 1 — 1 1 1 1 2 1 scapula humerus radius ulna carpalia metacarpus — — 1 — 4 1 1 1 3 5 2—1 5 1 — — 1 pelvis femur patella tibia tarsalia metatarsus — — 3 2 2 1 1 2 3 6 2 2 — 1 1 7 6 1 3 11 4 1 1 2 4 1 1 3 2 1 ph. I/II/III. — 3 — 11 — — — 4 1 — 5 — 1 1 34 1 57 9 1 2 1 36 9 2 1 14 27 13 A

—Aurochs, В

—Bison The occurrence of 9—13/14th century large wild Bovida remains here connected with the German

—Polish Lowland (Baltic Sea coastal area: 7 localities; middle territory: 6 sites; the margin of the Southern mountainous aea: 5) and Southern-Europe (6 localities). The frequency occurrence is also naturally dependent on the number of archaeological excavations. Bison remains or supposed Bison remains occur in Pomerany, Brandenburg, Saxony/Lower Silesia and Middle Ukraine. The anatomical distribution of large wild Bovid bones as known from 17 localities (Table 3) nicely shows that approximately 50% of the identifiable bone remains belong to the so-called meaty-region. There are conspicuously few horn-cores, trunk-region bones and metapodia. Skull bones — except for horncores — are for all practical purposes missing. Naturally, the distribution of bone remains from wild large Bovida is strongly influenced by difficulties in the identification and separation of wil/ domesticated

—Aurochs/Bison remains.