Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 100. (Budapest 2008)

Bernert, Zs.: Data for the calculation of body height on the basis of extremities of individuals living in different historical periods in the Carpathian Basin

MATERIAL AND METHOD The majority of data were taken from the work of KINGA ERY describing the dimensions of four bones (femur, tibia, humerus and radius) of several thousand individu­als (ERY 1998). This is the most complete database of this character in the Carpathian Basin. I extended this pool of data using measurements collected from other series (Bala­tonlelle, cemetery of the medieval village of Báté, the motte of Edelény-Borsod, Fonyód­Bézsenypuszta, Gyugy, site No. 26 in the 62 n( * Street in Kaposvár, Kereki-Homokbánya, Kéthely-Melegoldal, Ordacsehi-Csereföld, Park Street in Öreglak, Somogyjád, Török­koppány, borderland of Vörs-Major, Vörs-Papkert B, Zselickislak-Töröcske). My results are based on the combined database including data of approximately 4,000 males and females. RESULTS I created empirical tables (Tables 1 -2) showing individual metric data of postcranial bones, organised in rows. I arbitrarily chose the femur to be the basis of comparison. I also defined femur data categories with a range of 3 millimetres. As a result, I achieved appro­priately narrow categories while the number of such classes remained transparent. I also specified the average length of matching (i.e. of the same individual) tibiae, humeri and radii as well as the number of elements. Table 1. Empirical table of matching postcranial bones of males. N = number of individu­als with comparable limb bone and femur. M = average MARTIN 1 length that belongs to a given femur length group Femur Martin 1 M tibia Ntibia 2655 ^humerus •^humerus 2685 •^radius •^radius 2344 391-393 318.33 6 286.00 7 219.50 4 394-396 332.00 4 306.57 7 228.83 6 397-399 323.92 4 294.31 8 220.07 7 400-402 328.44 16 293.39 23 215.68 1-4 403-405 330.84 19 300.44 18 227.60 15 406-408 337.96 23 302.02 26 229.52 23 409-411 336.28 34 300.32 39 227.03 30 412-414 337.01 41 302.05 39 228.08 36 415-417 338.78 52 303.24 49 229.52 47 418-420 344.43 45 305.84 47 229.43 40 421-423 342.23 67 306.81 67 232.26 64 424-426 347.9 77 309.29 80 235.84 70 427-429 348.4 98 312.68 94 236.22 82 430-432 350.5 110 314.15 113 237.22 98 433-435 354.36 119 316.14 120 239.05 114

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