Az Egri Múzeum Évkönyve - Annales Musei Agriensis 11.-12. (1973-1974)

Kissné Korompai Bernadette: Nagytálya középkori (XIII–XVI. századi) templomának belsejében feltárt embertani anyag elemzése

Mrs. Bernadette Kiss (Korompai) THE ANALYSIS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL MATERIAL FOUND INSIDE THE MIDDLE-AGE CHURCH OF NAGYTALYA The work comprises the demographical and anthropological characteristics of the Middle-Age population of Nagytalya. (XIII—XVI. cent.). It reports the results of researches connected with denture and paleopathology. The author investigates in details, the exterior morphological marks, as well as the anatomical variations of the osseous material of 150 persons. The archeological working up of the excavation was done by Béla Kovács, archeologist. (13). The high lifetime value of the population : 38,0 years, which was expectable at the birth, is a surprising characteristic of the demography. This is reasoned by the small number of children. In the research material the proportion of children and adults is 28:72. The average value of sexuality in the case of men, the characteristics on the investigated skulls (+0,86), show a more definite masculine character, than the 0,66 average value referring to women and revealing a weaker feminity. The population is characterized by the predominance of brachycranical elements. In view of the frequent occurrence of skull-indicator 8:1, 83% of the men and 89% of the women belong to the brachycranical group, with preponderance of a hyperbrachycrania. Among the brachycran elements beside the cromagnoid race, the alpine type-category can be found too. In knowledge of the historical background, it might be possible, that in the Middle-Age, in the anthropological composure of the population of Nagytalya, beside the archaic population there were also strange elements, to be found whatmore, they became predominant. The working up of the anthropological results of the excavation of Nagytalya is to be of help in solving this problem. However, for the further analysis of the ethnic stratification and in order to draw an adequate conclusion, the Middle-Age data-material of Vallon anthropological series — from the vicinity of Liège — as well as those of the XIV—XVI cent. Hungarian cemeteries, are indispensible. 130