Janus Pannonius Múzeum Évkönyve 13 (1968) (Pécs, 1971)

Régészet - Kralovánszky, Alán: The Paleosociographical Reconstruction of the Eleventh Century Population of Kérpuszta. Methodological Study

94 KRALOVÄNSZKY be reconstructed. Analyzing its use according to age groups, we find it only added to persons below 40 years; among them the proportion is the following: children 53.4 per cent, adults 46.6 per cent. The total of beads may be low (under 10 pieces) or high (over 50 pieces) both in the graves of adults and children. As to colour we find that yellow, green and blue beads are given mainly to children, whereas a single colour (dark brown or black) is due to adults. The lack of red beads is conspicuous; it is known that this colour was reserved for very distinguished people. The Kérpuszta rural community evidently did not contain an individual who could have paraded with the red bead. 4. Rattle At Kérpuszta there is but one case of a rattle, found in the grave of a female infant at the boundary line of sections I and II of the cemetery (Fig. 10). 10. The occurrence of rattles within the cemetery. Kérpuszta. 5. Shank button It is known from section I of the cemetery alone, contained by the graves of a female child (11 to 14 years) and a woman (31 to 35 years) (Fig. 11). 11. The occurrence of shank buttons within the cemetery. Kérpuszta. instance the still preserved anthropological material did not reveal more than the age of the individual 23 to x years. As the grave contained also beads which, as stated above, Were worn by persons below 40 years, and as the remaining cases of the rosetta are linked to people between 15 and 24 years, the mentioned woman seems to have belonged to this age group as well (Fig. 12). 12. The occurrence of rosettas within the cemetery. Kérpuszta. 7. Ring The territorial extension of the ring is identical with that of the S-ended hair ring. It is entirely missing in the south-western wedge of section I of the cemetery (Fig. 13). 6. Rosetta This object was found mainly in the first section of the cemetery (1 = 3; 11=1), in the ring served as a wedding ring, and only the graves of women from 15 to 24 years. In one headed rings were real jewels. This observa13. The occurrence of rings within the cemetery. Kérpuszta. At Kérpuszta rings were worn mainly by females, in 31 cases (26.5 per cent of the women) and one child (1.3 per cent). Dividing the occurrence of rings among age groups, we find that it is missing in those from 2 to 14, 36 to 45, 56 to 60 years. In the bulk of the known cases it was worn chierfly by women in the reproductive age. The above statements modify the opinion of Szőke, holding that at Kérpuszta „the ring was worn only by woman beyond 20 years; this is a doubtless proof of the fact that the simple