Achaeometrical Research in Hungary II., 1988

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Bartosiewicz L.: Faunái material from two Hallstatt Period settlements in Slovenia = Arheoloski Vestnik 42, Ljubljana (1991) 199-205. A notably high degree of fragmentation was characteristic of These animal bone assemblages which contained the remains of common domestic animals. Since one of the sites discussed in the study also had a better preserved medieval component, t-tests were calculated between the fragment lengths of cattle and sheep/goat and of nonidentifiable bones representing These two size groups. Statistical differences were significant only between mean fragment lengths of identifiable cattle bones and nonidentifiable, small splinters from sheep-size animals in the Hallstatt material. Due to the higher degree of fragmentation, cattle may be vastly overrepresented in terms of the number of identifiable bone specimens (N1SP) in poorly preserved archaeozoological assemblages. Bartosiewicz L.: Avarkori lovak végtagarányai (Extremity proportions of Avar Period horses) = Móra Ferenc Múzeum Évkönyve, Szeged (1991) 301-310. Avar Period burials often contain complete skeletons of horses buried in the company of the deceased. Several dozen such graves were studied in This paper. This unusually rich series of Osteometrie data by archaeozoological standards offers a unique opportunity for withers height associations. While the proportion of individual long bones within the extremity has been traditionally used for This purpose, a combined formula based on all long bones of the skeleton is introduced in This paper. Due to the differential growth in various extremity segments (stylopodium, zygopodium. metapodium) all of These bones should be taken into consideration when available from the same animal, in order to minimize Age- and phaenotype related bias in the reconstruction of withers height. Bartosiewicz L.: Többváltozós módszerek avar kori állatkoponyás temetkezések vizsgálatában (Multivariate statistical methods in the analysis of Avar Period burials containing animal skulls) = A Jósa András Múzeum Evkönyve ХХХ-ХХХП, Nyíregyháza (1992) 263-276. Avar Period graves that also contain skulls of cattle and sometimes sheep, represent a special type of burial rite. In order to better understand the archaeological meaning of such animal remains, archaeological variables (especially gender as well as the presence/absence of certain grave goods) were included in a principal component analysis together with zoological finds, especially the aforementioned skulls. Bartosiewicz L.: Beasts of burden from a classical road station in Bulgaria = In H. Buitenhuis. A.T. Clason eds.: Archaeozoology of the Near East. Universal Book Services, Dr. W. Backhuys, Leiden (1993) 105-109. The Roman period settlement of Karasura near Stara Zagora in Bulgaria, was located along important transport routes. One might, therefore, hypothesize the presence of bones from draft oxen in the osteological material. The identification of such remains was attempted using a set of reference bones from modern draft oxen collected in 308