A Móra Ferenc Múzeum Évkönyve, 1971. 2. (Szeged, 1974)

Die VII. Archäologische Konferenz in Szeged - Farkas, Gyula–Lengyel, Imre: Skeleton of a mediaval dwarf form Ludoš-Csurgó (Yugoslavia)

A Móra Ferenc Múzeum Evkönyve I97I/2 SKELETON OF A MEDIEVAL DWARF FROM LUDOS-CSURGÓ (YUGOSLAVIA) GYULA FARKAS—IMRE LENGYEL (Szeged, JATE Anthropological Institute — Budapest, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Archeological Research Group) In 1964, at the findspot of Ludos-Csurgó, near Subotica, a skeleton was brought to light originating from an archeological age not determined more exactly but, according to the verbal information of the Archeologist László Szekeres, probably back to the 15th century. The find consist of a well-preserved cranium and skeletal bones. It is primarily according to the determination made with the morphological method on the basis of the characteristics of the skull that the average age of death can be put at 67, and its sex, on the basis of the +1,5 sexualization coefficient (Farkas—Lengyel— Marcsik, 1972) be determined as male. THE SKULL The skull was measured with the aid of classic anthropological methods (Martin

—Sailer, 1957), and then the absolute measurements were assessed on the basis of the Hug classification. As a result of this the measurements of major importance of the find are the following : No of measurements Measurement No of measurements Measurement No of measurements Measurement Indices 1. 181 40. 98 62. 46 17:1 74,0 lc. 45 45. 136 63. 36 9:8 68,0 5. 102 46. 94 65. 121 47:45 78,7 8. 147 47. 107 66. 104 48:45 50,0 9. 100 48. 68 69. 31 52:51 80,0 17. 134 51. 40 70. 67 54:55 52,0 20. 117 52. 32 71. 34 63:62 78,3 32. la. 51° 54. 26 72. 83° 8:1 81,2 38. 1485 55. 50 Among the morphological characteristics the circular line of the shull is in norma verticalis pentagonal, the glabella of the 3rd degree, the spina nasalis anterior of the fifth degree, the protuberantia occipitalis externa of the 4th degree, the alveolar prognathism of the first degree (vertical alveolar part), the fossa canina of fifth degree (very deep). The skull, on the basis of its absolute, measurements, according to Hug, is of medium length, width and height, aristenkephalic, the forehead is of medium width, 199