Bujdosné Pap Györgyi (szerk.): Agria 49. (Az egri Dobó István Vármúzeum Évkönyve - Annales Musei Agriensis, 2016)
Évinger Sándor: Avar kori temetkezések Sirok-Csörgő lelőhelyről - a feltárt csontmaradványok általános embertani vizsgálata
Sándor Évinger Avar age burials from Sirok-Csörgő site general anthropological examination of the human skeletal remains Nine graves from an Avar period cemetery were excavated at the site of Sirok-Csörgő (Heves county, Hungary) in 1968 and 1969. The skeletal remains of five individuals were taken to the Department of Anthropology of the Hungarian Natural History Museum in 2015 for general anthropological examination. All skeletons belonged to adults. Two of them were 25-35 year-old women. The other three persons were men (a 30—40 year-old, a 30-45 year-old, and a 40-60 year-old male). The material was unsuitable for statistical analyses and for comparison with other historical populations due to the low number of available skeletons. Some of the metric and morphological traits of the skulls varied greatly, despite the very low number of examinable craniums. For example, according to the cranial indices, brachycranic and dolichocranic braincase, or euryprosopic and leptoprosopic face were also present in the material. However, the skulls showed uniformity in several characteristics. For instance, shovel shaped incisors, maxillary or palatinal toms were never present, and the occiput was curved by every individual. By type, every skull was europid (caucasoid). The stature values also showed heterogeneity. Nevertheless, as mentioned above, the number of skeletons were very low, thus it would be a mistake to draw any general conclusion from the metric and morphological data. Among the examined skeletons enamel hypoplasia was observed in one case (grave no. 1), indicating that this individual probably had a sickness with high fever or suffered malnutrition during the development of the affected teeth. The woman from the 2nd grave might had a teeth development disorder which caused the absence of the upper right incisors and the abnormal position of the upper right canine. The man buried in the 4th grave had a developmental disorder too, namely sacrum bifidum. On the distal end of a left tibia (grave no. 1) the ossification of part of the interosseous membrane was spotted. This presumably the result of an injury or constant strain. The woman from the 6th grave had mild periosteal reaction on her tibiae, which probably indicates strain. 181
