A Nyíregyházi Jósa András Múzeum évkönyve 33-35. - 1990-1992 (Nyíregyháza, 1993)

István Vörös: Animal Bones from the Roman Imperial Period Settlement at Apagy in Barbaricum (fordította: Kulcsár Valéria)

Sarmatian settlements between the Danube and Tisza, the Tisza basin and East from Tisza (this is the territory closed by the Sarmatian entrenchment which in its tendency follows the border between the fields soil of the Great Hungarian Plain and the closed wood-woody steppe) is the following: cattlesheep-pig (Table 6.); and in the Sarmatian settlements of the Roman Imperial Period outside the great entrenchment (N-NE-Hungary): cattle-pig-sheep (Table 5.)- Horses were met in all settlements, but asses only inside the entrenchment. Sheep dogs were not met everywhere, but greyhounds were found primarily inside the entrenchment. Besides the four big games there were animals hunted for their fur: e.g. remains of fox, badger, brown bear, beaver, hare and polecat are known. Red deer comes from closed woods, roe deer and wild boar from brushwoods, aurochs from woody steppe. Except for hare all the other far animals come from wood milieu. A head of a hunter polecat (scull + a pair of mandibula) found in grave 7., barrow II. in Tiszaeszlár, Szellőhalom shows a special way of hunting. Domestic animals of Barbaricum that come from Roman import are cat and domestic goose. Import animals can be Roman military horses and pigeons. The number of poultry is very low, as well as the number of wild birds and fish. István VÖRÖS Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum Budapest Pf. 364. H-1370 65