Achaeometrical Research in Hungary II., 1988

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Romania. Biometrie calculations, however, revealed no direct correspondence between archaeological specimens and the modern material of specialized working animals. Bartosiewicz L.: Late Medieval lynx skeleton from Hungary = In A. Clason, S. Payne, H.-P. Uerpmann eds.: Skeletons in her cupboard. Oxbow Monograph 34, Oxford (1993)5-18. An unusual zoological find, a lynx skeleton from a 15th century pit excavated in an urban context is discussed in This paper. Zoological, archaeological, biométrie, and iconographie evidence are compiled in an attempt to best understand how and why This animal could occur in a faunal assemblage from which even the remains of otherwise commonly occurring wild animals are practically missing. Bartosiewicz L.: Early Medieval archaeozoology in Eastern Europe = In H. Friesinger, F. Daim, E. Kanelutti, O. Cichocki eds.: Bioarchäologie und Frühgeschichtsforschung. Archaeologia Austriaca Monographien 2, Wien (1993) 123-132. In addition to a general description of how archaeozoology developed in Hungary, descriptive statistics from a number of Early Medieval sites in Eastern Europe are compared. Several waves of migrations can be detected in the fluctuation quantities of horse and especially sheep ("steppe elements") bone fragments. Bartosiewicz L.: The anatomical position and metric traits of phalanges in cattle = Revue de Paléobiologie Mil, Geneve (1993) 21-43. Various phalanges of Artiodactyls are usually difficult to tell apart due to the great similarity of These bones within the same transversal extremity segment (I and II phalanges respectively). Anterior/posterior and especially axial/peripheral bones are often indiscriminately pooled in graphic representations as well. A discriminant analysis performed on the complete set of I and II phalanges from 17 modern individuals (draft oxen and young bulls) revealed great metric similarity as well. It has proven useful, however, in screening phalanx measurements in order to identify dimensions that most reliably reflect the animals' size. Bartosiewicz L., Van Neer, W., Lentacker, A.: Metapodial asymmetry in cattle = International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 3/2, London (1993) 69-76. Bone mineral content (BMC) and linear measurements on the metapodia of modern cattle, including draft oxen, showed mediolateral differences in the build-up of osseous materials. Extreme morphometric asymmetry in the bones of draft cattle is parallelled by higher bone density in the more strongly developed 3rd metacarpus. Bartosiewicz L., Mézes M.: Fish bone preservation and fat content = Offa 51, Schleswig (1994) 361-364. Autolysis, that is the loss of fish bone due to the acidic environment caused by the decomposition of its own fat content is an often quoted reason for the absence of fish remains in well-aerated archaeological deposits. This hypothesis was tested 309