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

ans. (Tiszafüred, 10th c.) present almost without exception the largest minimal circumference of diaphyses. The populations inhabiting the Carpathian Basin between these time limits had lengthened and comparatively thinner femora and tibiae, and thinner humeri. Stature, body weight and postcranial indices indicate a similar but even more marked tendency (Table 5). The two just settled populations (Tiszavasvári and Tiszafüred) and the series of Alattyán were the most robust. In Alattyán a number of the burials were early Avars (KOVRIG 1963) and the robust character of this population was probably due to these early Avar individuals (Fig. 3). Fig. 3. Changes of some postcranial indices through time To get further information about health condition we checked porotic hyperostosis. Wé found that a population with worse physical and oral pathological conditions had more porotic hyperostosis, mainly with children. It indicated that the increase of diseases changes in parallel to settlement patterns

. C. The skull measurements of these series were grouped by cluster analysis. This analysis produced the following results: 1. The Avar cemeteries from the area between the rivers Danube and Tisza formed the most marked group (Fig. 4). 2. The analysis of the Avar period samples produced strong differences according to geographical location. 3. The Transdanubian Avar period samples, the Hungarian Conquest period series of Tiszafüred and the 10-12th century populations are in one loose group. 4. The early Avar period series of Tiszavasvári had no analogy at all either within our sample or within all the known Avar period series of the Carpathian Basin (Fig. 4).