Szilasi Ágota, H. (szerk.): Annales Musei Agriensis. Agria LII. (Eger, 2019)

Évinger Sándor: Petőfibányán feltárt avar kori temetkezések embertani vizsgálata

47:45

89,31 mesoprosop

82,81 euryprosop

48:45

55,73 lepten

50,78 euryen

52:51

85,71 mesokonch

80,95 chamaekonch

54:55

41,18 hyperleptorrhin

48,98 mesorrhin

63:62

81,82 leptostaphylin

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nő?

nő

3. táblázat: Petőfibánya - Iskola utca 5. avar kori lelőhely - a 3. sír eltemetett]ének egyéni

hosszúcsont (Martin 1 ) méretei

Csont típusa

Oldal

Bal

Jobb

Humerus

277

288

Ulna

223

222

Radius

206

208

Femur

384

387

Tibia

315

318

Fibula

311-Clavicula

114

113

Sándor Évinger

ANTHROPOLOGICAL EXAMINATION OF THE AVAR PERIOD BURIAL SITE FINDS FROM PETŐFIBÁNYA

In 1974, four Avar Period graves were unearthed in Petőfibánya, at Iskola street no. 5. The human skeletal remains were examined in 2015 at the Department of Anthropology of the Hungarian Natural History Museum. The first step was the identification of the skeletal parts, since they arrived in unmarked packages. By matching them to the drawings of the graves, the skull in Grave 1 and the skeletons in Graves 2 and 3 were identifiable. The postcrania in Grave 1 and the skeleton in Grave 4 were missing. The packaged materials also included a few animal bones and objects, as well as the scattered bone fragments of at least three people. The three skeletons that were suitable for exanimation were those of a child belonging to the Infans I age category and two adult females. I did not find any traumatic injuries, extreme pathological changes or unique anatomical variations in any of them. Both females can be classified as brachycran Europid types. Although the small number of skeletal elements alone does not allow us to conduct comparative analyses, when examined together with cemeteries selected along the right criteria, it can contribute to the better understanding of the period and the area’s population, as well as the origin of these people.

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