Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 82. (Budapest 1990)

Fóthi, E. ; Pap, I.: Changes of way of life during the 6-12th centuries in the territory of Hungary

We tried to add some modest anthropological evidence to the reconstruction of the everyday life of this period. We were looking for possible relationships among skeletal remains, diet and way of life. Fig. 1. Distribution of the series analyzed MATERIAL AND METHOD We analyzed 11 series from the territory of Hungary from the early Avar times to the twelfth century (Fig. 1). Two of them are from the early Avar period (Tiszavasvári 6-7th c, Környe 6-7th c), six of them are from the middle and late Avar period (üllő I 7-8th c, Üllő II 7-8th c, AlattyánTulát 7-8th c, Fészerlak 8th c, Toponár 8th c. , Homokmégy 8-9th c.) and three of them are from the 10-12th centuries (Tiszafüred 10th c, Tiszalök 11th c, Szabolcs 10-12th c). All series were analyzed from 3 aspects. A. First we examined all these series odontologically

. Caries, intra vitám loss of teeth and abscessus/cysta were scored. Both males and females were taken under odontological examination. B. Six long bone measurements (humerus Martin 1, 7, femur Martin 1, 8, tibia Martin 1, 10b), three postcranial indices (Martin humerus 7:1, femur 8:2, tibia 10b:l), stature, body weight (DEBETZ & DURN0V0 1971) and Livi index provided the data base for the second sequence of examinations (MARTIN 1928, ALEXEYEV 1966). These investigations were based on the data of righthand side long bones of male mean values. We tried to apply cluster analysis in this field, but the number of variables at hand was not sufficiently large to produce reliable results. The linear presentation of our results held more promise

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