Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 83. (Budapest 1991)

Pais, I. ; Tóth, T.: Human paleonutrition [sic] in the Carpathian Basin from the Neolithic to Mediaeval times based on osteochemical analysis

Fig. 4. Macroelement concentrations Fig. 5. Trace-element concentrations in samples of copper age in samples of copper age of magnesium, lead and zinc. According to these results, we can probably believe that these two, geographically different populations had - from chemical point of view - some differences in their nutritional basis (PAIS 1989a, b). b/ Among the places of discovery of the Neolithic and Copper age fundamental differences were manifest with 95% fidelity in the case of the evaluated elements, but the significant differences between the element were not demonstrable: first of all, because the data showed great divergences and the number of the analytical samples was generally low. The analytical evaluation of bone samples from early Iron age, from Roman epoch and from the age of the Hungarian Conquest 1. Near Mezőcsát a cemetery was found from the early Iron age and we received the rib-samples of 8 males and 10 females. As the analytical data of Table 4 show, we were not able to find real differences between the two sexes. The Sr/Zn ratio in the case of males was 0.64, while for females 0.72. 2. In a Transdanubian village, Kisárpás in a cemetery from the Roman epoch vertebrae spondyle of 15 males and 5 females were found. As our analytical results given in Table 5 show, we found no meaningful differences between males and females. Since these samples were from the same part of the skeletons, we can see the correlation between these samples and those from prehistoric times. We may conclude that the lead-content increased in a great degree and the zinc-content also increased,