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3) Kunszállás—Alkotmány Ts%. Excavated by E. H. Tóth, 1967 and 1970. Inventory numbers of the animal remains in the Katona József Múzeum, Kecskemét: 74.1.1.—128. 4) Kuns^entmiklos—Bak ér. Excavated by E. H. Tóth, 1966. Inventory numbers of the animal remains in the Katona József Múzeum, Kecskemét: 66.3.56 — 103. 5) Or gov âny—Király tanya. Excavated by E. H. Tóth, 1966. Inventory numbers of the animal remains in the Katona József Múzeum, Kecskemét: 66.1.114—187. 6) Örege ser tö—Csorna puszta. Excavated by E. H. Tóth, 1965. Inventory numbers of the animal remains in the Katona József Múzeum, Kecskemét: 65.25.9 — 10. 7) Szabadszállás—]o\an. Excavated by A. Horváth, 1961—62—63. Inventory numbers of the animal remains in the Katona József Múzeum, Kecskemét: 65.2.48-310. AU sites are of the Sftßie type: they are parts of settlements from the 2nd to the 4th century A. D. unearthed in course of salvage excavations. Some of them yielded also objects of other periods. Their animal bone samples are the result of careful collecting work, the excavators saved even the tiniest bone fragments, however, they used neither dry of wet sieving techniques. The species composition of the animal bone samples of the seven sites can be seen in Table 1. / 2 3 4 ? 6 7 9 11 128 127 6 13 125 0 0 56 17 1 1 66 1 4 163 66 7 1 51 0 1 71 35 7 0 10 0 2 41 42 0 2 7 о 0 100 3 0 0 233 0 0 9 0 0 0 3 10 18 568 290 21 17 495 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 1 5 10 18 568 293 25 18 500 Cattle — Bos taurus L. Sheep — Ovis aries L. Sheep or goat — Ovis s. Capra Pig — Sus scrofa dorn. L. Horse — Equus caballus L. Dog — Canis familiáris L. Hen — Gallus domesticus L. Domestic animals Aurochs — Bos primigenius Boj. Red deer — Cervus elaphus L. Wild swine — Sus scrofa fer. L. Brown hare — Lepus europaeus Pall. Pond tortoise — Emys orbicularis L. Wild animals Total Table 1. List and frequencies of the occurring species (number of specimens). / Kunbaracs — Beck tanya, 2 Kunpeszér, 3 Kunszállás — Alkotmány Tsz, 4 Kunszentmiklós — Bak ér, 5 Orgovány — Király tanya, 6 Öregcsertő — Csorna puszta, 7 Szabadszállás — Józan. As Table 1 shows the animal bone samples of the seven sites are rather small coming as they do from small-scale salvage excavations. There are only two sites among them (Szabadszállás—Józan and Kunszállás—Alkotmány Tsz) whose animal bone assemblage reaches or exceeds the security limit of 500 specimens for quantitative studies. Nevertheless, even they cannot be used for such evaluations because their samples contain several more or less complete animal skeletons (obviously remains of carcasses of animals which died in the settlements and were thrown into the garbage pits) that make it certainly impossible to determine a reliable picture about the frequency and importance of the different species. At the same time, the state of preservation of the animal remains is very good for settlement materials. The samples of the different sites contain altogether 10 incomplete skeletons, 28 whole skulls, larger skull fragments and horn-cores (see Table 2), and 48 whole, measurable long bones (see Table 3). While the 7 total Cattle 0 1 2 3 0 0 2 8 Sheep 0 0 1 4 0 0 3 8 Pig 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1Horse 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 Dog 0 0 4 2 0 0 4 10 Total 0 1 9 9 0 0 9 28 Table 2. Whole skulls, larger skull fragments and horn-cores in the sites. (The same key as in Table 1.) 42