Bujdosné Pap Györgyi (szerk.): Agria 49. (Az egri Dobó István Vármúzeum Évkönyve - Annales Musei Agriensis, 2016)
Évinger Sándor: Avar kori temető Feldebrőn. Az emberi csontmaradványok általános antropológiai vizsgálata
Sándor Évinger An avar period cemetery from Feldebrő general anthropological examination of the human skeletal remains In total 20 graves of an Avar Period cemetery were excavated in the Lukács street of Feldebrő (Heves county, Hungary) in 1964 and 1972. The human skeletal remains from 10 of these graves were sent to the Department of Anthropology of the Hungarian Natural History Museum in 2015, where general anthropological examination was executed on them. The skeletons were incomplete and very badly preserved with strongly eroded cortical surfaces. Because of these conditions, they were unsuitable for taking metric and morphology-based data on them. (Only by one juvenile individual was it possible to calculate the stature, as he alone had at least one complete longbone.) Furthermore, the eroded bone surfaces hindered the systematic pathological observations too. One skeleton belonged to the Infant II. age group, three fitted into the juvenile age group, and six were adults - four women and two men. Due to the extremely bad preservation of the material, both the sex determination and the biological age estimation of the adults could be executed only with an amount of uncertainty. Only one pathological alteration was observable in the skeletal material: the 35-45 year-old man from grave no. Y/A (1964/1-2) had Schmorl nodes on some of his vertebrae from the thoracic section of the spine. These Schmorl nodes, that are quite common even in contemporary populations, can be the results of different spine deformities or may appear due to the long term strain of the spine. 212
