Marta, Livius et al.: The Late Bronze Age Settlement of Nyíregyháza-Oros „Úr Csere” (Satu Mare, 2010)

X.Elisabeta Berendi: Archaeozoological Description of the Faunal Remnants

data proves that our bovids were smaller indeed, than the average, but considering the Tiszaalpár metrical data this might also be a result of some kind of local environmental effect.

Sus scrofa (swine)

Swine bones were poor in number, very fragmented and teeth constitute a big part of them. This fact can be explained either by the fact that the environmental conditions were not the best for keeping pigs, or that the bones were destroyed by serious consuming. 15 bones were coming from juveniles, 7 from subadults, 33 from adults, the rest could not be determined because of fragmentation (remember, that juvenile bones are always more fragile!). 21 fragments showed gnawing marks, only 10 were cut, 3 fragments were burnt and 7 fragments looked boiled. As for the quality of the meat11, the percentage is as follows:

Fig. 2: Distribution in percentage of pig bones according to meat quality

As obvious, most of the bones belong to the best meat-quality, C category is poorly present, and teeth are also high in number, probably because of their resistance. So clearly, they kept swine for consuming their meat, but pigs did not play a very important role in the society’s life from the animal husbandry’s point of view.

Only one element was complete enough to provide metrical data for defining withers height, this was a left astragalus with the following sizes: GL=39.4, Bd=23.5,

11 According to Uerpmann (1973)