Alba Regia. Annales Musei Stephani Regis. – Alba Regia. Az István Király Múzeum Évkönyve. 8.-9. 1967-1968 – Szent István Király Múzeum közleményei: C sorozat (1968)

Tanulmányok – Abhandlungen - Éry Kinga, K.: Reconstruction on the tenth Century Population of Sárbogárd on the Basis of Archaeoloogical and Anthropological Data. – A sárbogárdi X. századi közösség rekonstrukciója régészeti és embertani adatok alapján. VIII–IX, 1967–68. p. 93–147. t. XXVI–XLV.

Fig. 22. Number of survivors (l x ) are likely to occur in one and the same population only if previously to marriage the males and females lived in different populations. It remains unanswered why the males had a lower expectation of life and why the females had a higher one. In the demographic analysis of the Sárbogárd popula­tion I would like to treat the question of the number of families and generations. Table 5 shows calculations of merely theoretical importance. Various estimations can be made by dating the cemetery within several time spans. (The mean length of life of 28.5 years was computed as an average of the values of Halimba, Zalavár—Village and Kérpuszta.) Since the ending of the cemetery of Sárbogárd was likely to have occurred between 970 and 990 the data of the table concerning this period can be the most useful. Thus the community buried its dead in this cemetery for three generations. During one generation 31 to 36 indi­viduals lived in the settlement; this figure implies 4 to 5 nuclear families if seven is taken as the average size of the nuclear family. 38 Since the mortality rate was very high during the Árpád period the number of surviving newborn hardly exceeded the number of those who died. Therefore at the beginning and end of the cemetery's use the population likely had the same number. Indepen­dent of a certain idealization derived from the figures, I believe that the community appearing с 900 numbered 25—30 persons and comprised approximately 4 nuclear families. IV. ANTHROPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS The anthropometric survey of the Sárbogárd series was made on the basis of M a r t i n' s manual 39 with meas­urements repeated for controls 40 . Cranial capacity was 38 E. MOLNÁR : A magyar társadalom története az őskortól az Árpád­korig (Hungarian Social History from Ancient Times until the Árpád Period) (Budapest, 1949); K. K. ÉRY-A. KRALOVÁNSZKY: Magyar­ország kora Árpád-kori lakossága létszámának rekonstrukciója (The Reconstruction of the Size of the Magyar Population in the Early Arpad Period) (Manuscript in the Library of the Central Statistical Office, 1963); Gy. GYŐRFFY : Magyarország népessége a honfoglalástól a XVI. század közepéig (The Population of Hungary from the Original Conquest Until the Middle of the Fourteenth Century), in: Magyarország történeti de­mográfiája. Szerk.: J. Kovacsics (Bp, 1963). taken with 3 mm glass beads. Body height was calculated with K. Pearson's method 41 , by employing N. W о 1 a n s к i's nomogramm 42 and as a sort of experi­ment I completed the work with G. О 1 i v i e r's meth­39 R. MARTIN: Lehrbuch der Anthropologie (Jena, 2nd ed. 1928) 40 In certain cases I calculated the indices of A. HRDLICKA (Practical Anthropometry. Philadelphia, 1939); W. H. FLOWER (The Journ. of the Anthr. Inst. 14 [1885] 183-186); S. de FÉLICE (L'Anthropologie, 52 [1948] 243-264). « К. PEARSON: Mafhem. Contrib. to the Theory of Evolution: V. Philo­soph. Transact, of the Royal Soc, Ser. A. 192 (1899) 169-244. « N. WOLANSKI: Przegl. Antr. 19 (1953) 403-404. 6 113

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