A Móra Ferenc Múzeum Évkönyve 2014., Új folyam 1. (Szeged, 2014)
RÉGÉSZET - Tóth Anikó: Kiskundorozsma-Nagyszék (M5. Nr. 34. 26/72] szarmata település álatcsont leletei (Előzetes értékelés]
Anikó Tóth Animal Bone Finds from the Period of the Roman Empire in Kiskundorozsma-Nagyszék II Animal Bone Finds in the Barbarian Settlement from the Period of the Roman Empire in Kiskundorozsma-Nagyszék II (M5 Site Nr. 34.26/72) Anikó Tóth Thanks to the preventive excavation carried out due to the highway constructions, significant information was gathered concerning the husbandry life style of Sarmatian communities. The Site M5 Nr. 34 26/72 Kiskundorozsma- Nagyszék Il proved to be the richest in animal bone finds in the excavation area of Csongrád County. Primary analysis has shown that the settlement part was a Sarmatian settlement inhabited in several phases with its golden age in the 3rd-4th centuries. The excavation provides significant archaeological, anthropological, archaeobotanical, petroghraphical and archaeozoological finds (Szalontai - Tóth 2000). A result of complex analysis, the environment of the site may be outlined, also the animal-keeping lifestyle of the settled community and the changes in the livestock can be detected. The reconstructed natural environment depicts a humid meadow and gallery forest, periodically flooded by water, providing the source for pasturing animals, as well as hunting and fishing. In the community of the Barbarian settlement from the period of the Roman Empire between the 1st and 5th centuries, cattle, sheep and swine husbandry was dominant, although they also kept horses and dogs. This indicates that the available finds may not be considered as kitchen waste uniformly. The livestock was kept not only to provide food for the community, but they were also marketed. The animals could have been sold in markets, e.g. at Roman sentry-posts, also indicated by the location of the site, its being situated at the crossing-place over the River Tisza and close to the delta of River Maros. The settlement may have been situated along a trade-route - Aquincum-Szeged, Lugio-Szeged- Apulum - also confirmed by the high number of Roman import products found at the site. (Vörös 1993, Szalontai - Tóth 2000). All this is supported by the fact that among animal bone finds the remains of domesticated cats and geese were also discovered, which got into the Barbaricum via trade in course of the 3rd- 4th centuries (crossing place Partiscum, trading place, Vaday-Vörös.1979/1980, 125, Bökönyi 1983, 336, Vörös 1993,61). 159
