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 SEVEN – Genetic investigations

Table 5. Bone samples from the royal graves in the Matthias Church. XI: Chosen from two separately held tarsi for the sake of better analysis. There are samples of skull fragments from II/57_12, II/58_14, II/59_18, VI/1_13, VI/2_15 and VI/3_17, which we are currently not analyzing. By the term “bone dust” we mean the “bone sawdust” which was created when using the vibratory bone saw; since it never gets into the air, it is not vacuumed out of the air (Figure 21 ). We collected it on an individual basis during sample-taking from each skeleton (see Figure 22). The bone dust can be used when conducting genetic tests, such as DNA isolation.

Skeleton

Femur

Humerus

Tibia

Tarsus-1

Tarsus-2

Vertebra

Rib

Sternum

Bone dust

Béla III

X

XI

X

X

X

Anne A.

X

X

X

X

Fetus

X

II/52_3

X

XI

X

X femur

II/53_7

X

X

X

II/54-9

X

X

X

X

II/55_10

X

X

X

X

II/56_11

X2

X

X

X

II/109_8

X

X

X

1/3 G5

X

X

X

X

1/4 H6

X

X

X

X

The royal couple, as well as skeletons II/52_3, the fetus, 1/3 G5 and 1/4 H6 are displayed before taking the samples (Figures 23-27). Genetic analyses were conducted for each skeleton.

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