Somogyvári Ágnes – V. Székely György szerk.: „In terra quondam Avarorum…” Ünnepi tanulmányok H. Tóth Elvira 80. születésnapjára - Archaeologia Cumanica 2. (Kecskemét, 2009)
Éry Kinga: Vajdasági adatok a Duna-Tisza közén élt avar kori és középkori népességről
ARCHAEOLOG IA CUMANICA 2 során oly messzemenően segítettek. Évtizedek távlatából is szívből köszönöm az óbecsei Városi Múzeum és Képtár, valamint az újvidéki Tartományi Műemlékvédelmi Intézet igazgatónőinek, hogy módot adtak munkám végzésére. Nagy Sándor saját lakószobáját, Petar Pop-Lazic saját íróasztalát szabadította fel csont vizsgálatokra. Irodalom ÉRY, K. (1988): Éry Kinga: Anthropological studies on an early Avar period population at Backo Petrovo Selo (Yugoslavia). Part 1: Individual metric data. AnthrH 20: 55-66. ÉRY, K- (1990): Éry Kinga: Anthropological studies on an early Avar period population at Backo Petrovo Selo (Yugoslavia). Part 2: Analysis of the data. AnthrH 21: 33-53. ÉRY, K. (1998): Éry Kinga: Length of limb bones and stature in ancient populations in the Carpathian Basin. Humanbiologia Budapestinensis 26: p 87. Kinga Éry Data on the population of the Avarian and Middle Ages at the territory between Danube and Tisza in Vojvodina Between 1971 and 1973 in Becej I was examining 100 skeletons of the Avarian cemetery from Backo Petrovo Selo, and later published the results. Further two Avarian and Medieval samples examined by me did not seem to be worth of publishing because of the small number of cases and bad condition. Now I made a short report on these ones. Finds from the Avarian Age List of skeletons from Becej and Mali Idjos dated to the 6 , h-7 , h cent, can be seen on Table 1, the size of the bones on Table 2. Their characteristic features are the following. Becej: four male and three female skeletons. Perhaps because of the low number of cases, these material is heterogeneous from anthropological point of view. The skulls are medium-long or short, their stature is small, mid-tall or tall. According to their estimated taxonomic features they could belong to the Europid race. No significant anomaly could be observed on their bones. Skeletons from Mali Idjos (three male and one female) also show a heterogeneous picture. Their skull is mid-long or short, their stature is medium-small or tall. According to their estimated taxonomic features adults belonged to the Europid race, but a juvenilis showed Mongoloid features (grave 12). The only significant pathological anomaly is the porosity appearing on the interior surface of a child's skull (grave 6). Medieval finds List of skeletons from Novi Becej - Araca dated to the 11th-16th century can be seen on Table 4a-b, the sizes of female bones on Table 5, statistical parameters of the sizes on Table 6. Specific composition of the community is shown by the double number of men among the adults, and at the same time, almost complete absence of children and young people. It is notable that most of the men died at the age of 40-60. Women died in a younger age and perhaps this is the reason why only male skeletons showed a certain degeneration of the spine. Form of the skull could be evaluated only in six cases. Only one was very short, that is characteristic for the Late Medieval Age, the rest was only medium-long. The ones from Araca were mainly characterised by mainly medium-large - tall stature, that exceeded the average value of the population of the territory between Danube and Tisza in the period of the 13th- 15th centuries. 52
