A Debreceni Déri Múzeum Évkönyve 1994 (Debrecen, 1996)

Régészet, ókortudomány - Éry Kinga: The anthropological Characteristics of the Late Avar Population at Ártánd

Kinga Éry THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE LATE AVAR PERIOD POPULATION AT ÁRTÁND The uncovered part of the cemetery is approximately 40 per cent of the whole. 95 of the 258 skeletons belonged to men, 96 to women, 67 to children. There is hardly any deceased children between 0 and 2 years they must have been buried at another site. The ratio between men and women, and their life expectancy show us a settled community that had lived together for a longer period. The cranium of the population is long and wide (mesobrachykran), the facial bones are wide and of medium height (mesoprosop), the jaw-bone is wide, the body height is medium tall. Men together with most of the women are Caucasoid. Only in the case of 5 women can be observed scattered mongoloid features. According to the Penrose distance test, the nearest analogies to the Artánd sample can be found among the series of Sarmatian culture in the Middle-Volga area between the 4th century BC and the 2nd century AD. (The detailed anthropological description of the sample was published in English nearly 25 years ago in two different publications, cf. Éry 1966 and 1967). 108