Bárkányi Ildikó – F. Lajkó Orsolya (szerk.): A Móra Ferenc Múzeum Évkönyve 2017., Új folyam 4. (Szeged, 2018)
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Anikó Tóth Animal bone remains of the Árpád Age from the excavation site at Csanádpalota-Országhatár Animal bone remains of the Árpád Age from the excavation site at Csanádpalota-Országhatár Anikó Tóth A large number of animal remains (12.883 pieces) had been collected from the four periods of the M43 Nr 56. (Nr. 61.) Csanádpalota-Országhatár KÖH 52785 archaeological dig site. The majority of animal bones are related to the Sarmatian period (N: 6103). Half of the bones could be identified on a species level. Remains of the kitchen and processing waste could be identified from all periods, and only a few, almost complete and partial animal skeletons were uncovered (Árpád Age, 150. object, male dog). 48.2% of the archeologically valuable material from the Árpád Age was unearthed from pit objects; while additional animal bone materials were scattered between other objects. A large number of the remains with medium to high meat content were uncovered from ditches and pits. The most common find among the Árpád Age bones were the remains of household animals, which is only supplemented by the remains of hunted and collected animals (red deer, clams). The species encountered from the phylum of Mollusca presuppose the presence of a major watercourse with a sandy bottom, with an envi- ronment rich in leafy forests (river floodplain) and dotted with clearings and meadows. Household livestock does not seem to have been substantial. The husbandry of larger animals (cattle and horse) seems to have been the most important. The remains of smaller ruminant and swine suggests husbandry of livestock for their meat. Dog remains were scarcely found in object, but entire skeletons did turn up. There are traces of a tool on the inner part of a cattle’s jaw and on the spoke bone of a horse which - as an anthropogenic effect occurring at other dig sites as well - are possibly marks made by a tool used during the Árpád Age. Based on archeological zoological research these could have been bone anvils. 131
