Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 88. (Budapest 1996)
Ubelaker, D. H. ; Pap, I.: Health profiles of a Bronze Age population from northeastern Hungary
RESULTS The skeletal remains of 593 individuals were examined in the Tiszafüred - Majoros sample. All individuals in the museum from this site were examined. Of these, 169 were thought to be male, 176 female, 71 adult of unknown sex and 177 immature. Table 1 presents a life table reconstructed from the estimated ages at death. To construct this life table, the age at death of each skeleton was estimated as exactly as possible and assigned to the appropriate age interval. These intervals consisted of the one year from birth to age one, four years between ages one and five, and five years for all successive age intervals. For many adult remains, poor preservation precluded a precise estimate. Such remains were assigned a broad age range depending upon the available evidence. For life table construction, the midpoint of the age range was used to assign the skeleton to the appropriate interval. In the life table, the column D x contains the actual number of skeletons assigned to each age interval. The column d x contains the percentage values of individual representation in each interval. The column l x describes survivorship entering each age interval. The value q x represents the probability of death within each age interval. The following two columns, L x and T x represent statistics needed to calculate life expectancy. L x represents the total number of years lived by all individuals during each age interval. T x represents the total years remaining in the lifetime of all individuals entering each age interval. The final column lists the life expectancy of an individual entering each age interval. For example, in the Tiszafüred sample, a newborn had a life expectancy of 24.09 years. If an infant survived the first year of life, it could expect to live an additional 24.22 Table 1. Life table for Tiszafüred, reconstructed from estimates of age at death from the skeleton X Dx dx lx q x Lx Tx Cx 0- 0.9 27 4.55 100.00 0.0455 97.723 2409.275 24.09 1- 4.9 67 11.30 95.45 0.1184 359.191 231 1.551 24.22 5- 9.9 59 9.95 84.15 0.1182 395.868 1952.361 23.20 10-14.9 24 4.05 74.20 0.0545 360.877 1556.492 20.98 15-19.9 32 5.40 70.15 0.0769 337.268 1195.615 17.04 20-24.9 38 6.41 64.76 0.0990 307.757 858.347 13.26 25-29.9 107 18.04 58.35 0.3092 246.627 550.590 9.44 30-34.9 110 18.55 40.30 0.4603 155.143 303.963 7.54 35-39.9 60 10.12 21.75 0.4651 83.474 148.819 6.84 40-44.9 38 6.41 11.64 0.5507 42.158 65.346 5.62 45-49.9 22 3.71 5.23 0.7097 16.863 23.187 4.44 50-54.9 7 1.18 1.52 0.7778 4.637 6.324 4.17 55-59.9 1 0.17 0.34 0.5000 1.265 1.686 5.00 60-64.9 1 0.17 0.17 1.0000 0.422 0.422 2.50
