Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 92. (Budapest 2000)

Éry, K.: Anthropological studies on a Late Roman Period population at Tác-Margittelep

reached the cavum medulläre. No sign of healing indicative of survival could be observed. The distal end of the left ulna was shaved off by a sword blow of a 51-55 year old man (No. 383), whose skull was also hit by sword cuts. The upper edge of the right scapula displays a healed sword cut in a 54-58 year old man (No. 398, Fig. 25). It is worth mentioning that sword cuts (which were observed on 16 or 17 skeletons of the Tác cemetery) are very rare in other Roman Period samples. c) Wounds on the skull. Healed wounds attributable to a variety of causes were identified on the skulls of men (No. 178, 186, 230, 241, 250, 252, 269, 301, 333, 349, 368, 432, 436) and women (No. 275, 285, 323) alike as well as on a 10-12 year old individual (No. 302). d) Wounds on the postcranial skeleton and their implications.The following cases may be assigned in all likelihood to this category. The elongated flat damage on the anterior surface of the tibia's diaphysis of a 64-70 year old man (No. 94) is in all probability the mark of a previously inflicted surface cut. The diaphysis is thickened and deformed around this wound (Fig. 32). Considerable bone exostoses in the posterior diaphysis section of the femur of a 48-52 year old man (No. 106) and on the ramus posterior of the distal epiphysis of the femur of another, 54-58 year old man (No. 432), is the result of wounds inflicted on the musculature (myositis ossificans). Similar exostoses growth on the rib of a 62-68 year old man (No. 422) may also result from this type of trauma (Fig. 43). A similar phenomenon found on the rib of a 10-12 year old child (No. 402) falls within the same category (Fig. 44). Excess bone formation on the medial side of the right 5th metatarsus of a 58-62 year old woman (No. 350) may have resulted from the ossification of a ligament following a trauma of the muscle (Fig. 34). Finally, the cases of thickening of bones, the formation of exostoses and spider-web-like surface deformations that all occurred on the lower extremity bones in men (No. 19, 56, 67, 96, 100, 142, 200, 230, 375, 429) and women (No. 133, 350) as well as on the tibia of one child (No. 63) and on the humerus of another (No. 294) fall within the same category. e) Fractures. Healed fractures of the nasalia were observed on the skulls of men (No. 85, 106, 230, 301) and women (No. 174, 400) alike. On the postcranial skeleton of men, healed clavicle (No. 85, 106, 213, 230, 418), rib (No. 94, 203, 219, 243, 415, 417, 418), tibia (No. 73: Fig. 31 and No. 186), fibula (No. 73: Fig. 31 and No. 1 86, 432) and metatarsus (No. 435) fractures were detected. This shows that fractures in men were limited to the bones of the trunk and lower limb. In women, healed fractures of the postcranial skeleton occurred on a vertebra (No. 285), on the sacrum (No. 103), on the pubic and ischiadic bones of the pelvis (No. 104, 285, 408: Figs 27, 29-30), on ribs (No. 104, 141, 275, 285), on the hu-