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experimentally on modern carp (Cyprinus carpio L. 1758) vertebrae degreased to varying extents. Bones with a moderately reduced content of fat resisted decomposition best. Bartosiewicz L.: Animals in the urban landscape in (he wake of the Middle Ages Tempus Reparatum, Oxford (1995) pp. 180. This monograph attempts the holistic reconstruction of Late Medieval animal exploitation in Vác, a Hungarian town, on the basis of archaeozoological finds from 11 archaeological sites within the city of Vác. Archaeometric aspects of the study include the estimations of meat weights and values, craniometric analyses of cat and dog, as well as the metric analysis of Turkish Period tax rolls in which transit traffic by livestock traders was registered. Descriptive statistics were also used in the evaluation of oral tradition concerning the degree of appreciation of dogs in the Hungarian language. Bartosiewicz L.: Camel remains from Hungary = In H. Buitenhuis, H.-P. Uerpmann eds.: Archaeozoology of the Near East If. Backhuys Publishers. Leiden (1995) 119-125. Measurable camel bone fragments from a 16

th century Turkish timber fort at Szekszárd - Palánk in southern Transdanubia (western Hungary) were plotted against the background of corresponding bone measurements of known modern Bactrian camel and dromedary, in order to detect the taxonomic affiliation of the archaeological finds. A slenderly-built radius, tibia and relatively gracile astragali are all indicative of the presence of dromedaries in the material. The meat of camels seems to have been consumed, although This potentially Islamic dietary tradition is parallelled by the presence of pig bones in the faunal material. Bartosiewicz L.: Camels in Antiquity: The Hungarian connection = Antiquity 70/268, Cambridge (1996) 447-453. The introduction of camels to Europe has never become a lasting success. A review of sporadic camel finds from the Period of the Roman Empire as well as the Ottoman Turkish occupation suggest that camels were most of all used as beasts of burden. Neither the geographical, nor the Bartosiewicz L: Bronze Age animal keeping in North-western Transdanubia, Hungary (Bronzkori állattartás az Északnyugat-Dunántúlon) = Acta Musei Papensis, Pápai Múzeumi Értesítő 6 (1996) 31-42. Bartosiewicz L.: Hungarian Grey Cattle: in search of origins = Hungarian Agricultural Research 5/3, Budapest (1996) 4-9. In addition to the archaeological-historical review of the enigmatic Hungarian Grey cattle, This paper contains a metric comparison between the metapodia of This breed, German Black Pied and Romanian draft oxen. Statistical data show differences attributable to the different castration schedules of oxen in These three breeds. 310