Miklós Kásler - Zoltán Szentirmay (szerk.): Identifying the Árpád Dynasty Skeletons Interred in the Matthias Church. Applying data from historical, archaeological, anthropological, radiological, morphological, radiocarbon dating and genetic research (Budapest, 2021)

CHAPTER FIVE – Radiocarbon dating

The results for three samples are clearly flawed. Béla

III

and Anne of Antioch’s skeletons were covered with some sort of resin when they were placed in the Matthias Church, which made the dating older (and also caused difficulties with DNA isolation). Skeleton 1/3 G5 is clearly from the Árpád

era

according to archaeological dating, and thus its age could not be in alignment with the interval in the table.

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