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Tóth Zoltán et al.: Régészeti és archaeobotanikai adatok Heves megye (késő) népvándorláskori kutatásához Petőfibánya-Iskola utca 5. lelőhely sírjainak viszgálata alapján
2018 Az áldozati állatok eltemetésének kontinuitása a késő avar korban. In: Hága Tamara Katalin - Kolozsi Barbara (szerk.): Sötét Idők Túlélői. A kontinuitás fogalma, kutatásának módszerei az 5-11. századi Kárpátmedence régészetében. Tempora Obscura 4. Debrecen. 2018.109-140. 2019 Avar kori temető Apcon. In: AGRIA LII. Az Egri Múzeum Évkönyve = Annales Musei Agriensis, Dobó István Vármúzeum, Eger, 220-232. Zoltán Tóth - Árpád Kenéz - Zsuzsa Lisztes-Szabó - Attila Csík - Ákos Pető ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ARCHAEOBOTANICAL DATA LOR THE (LATE) MIGRATION PERIOD RESEARCH OF HEVES COUNTY, BASED ON THE INVESTIGATION OF THE GRAVES IN THE PETŐFIBÁNYA, ISKOLA STREET NO. 5 SITE. The Avar graves, discovered in Petőfibánya, included a small number of archaeological finds, some ofwhich are no longer found in the collection of the Dobó Castle Museum. Based on the vessels, found among the grave goods, this is assumed to be a Late Avar Period cemetery, but the actual period of its use cannot be pinpointed. Placing poultry in graves has become a more prevalent practice by the Late Avar Period, which also supports our assumption. Contrary to the archaeological finds, the results of the scientific research make the Petőfibánya cemetery especially interesting and important. Due to plant remains discovered in two vessels, this site can be a starting point for Avar Period archaeological and archaeobotanical investigations. Food remains render the interpretation of the vessels, placed in the graves, more complex. Obviously, we already knewthat food or drink was placed in potteries found in graves, however we only had minimal archaeological evidence of the contents of these vessels. Archaeobotanical examinations and collections over the past couple of decades provided more and more information about crop farming during the Avar Period. In the majority of the sites, the flotation and examination of the contents of grave vessels continues to be overshadowed by the archaeological interpretation of the finds. As shown in Petőfibánya, we would not have had a significant pool of artefacts, even if all of the obj ects had remained in the collection, but based on the archaeobotanical examinations we can confidently say that this cemetery is very important. Hopefully, archeologists working on or publishing about the sites will focus more on scientific investigations in the coming years and decades. In spite of its few graves, Petőfibánya paints a complex picture of the people who used to live here, thanks to the use of anthropology, archaeobotanics and archaeozoology 305
