Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 95. (Budapest 2003)

Bernert, Zs.: Anthropological analysis of the Avar Period cemetery of Kereki-Homokbánya

"Beside the mounted burial uncovered in earth moving a self-contained horse grave was dug up (Grave No. 11), and a double burial was uncovered (Grave No. 13) with the skeletons of a griffin belted man and a richly bejewelled woman... The belts bore a lot of archaic features in some cases, and a markedly late type of earing was found in the same group of finds,, Women's jewellery could be characterized by the large sized ringed earing with filigree work and pulled up sheet-ball, five pairs of which were uncovered (with silver and gold plated bronze pairs among them),, these earings were connected by a bronze chain either in front, on the neck, or behind, on the nape. There were no weapons buried in these graves, and only two vessels were uncovered". The archeologist inferred a peaceful way of life of this community from this circumstance (KÖLTŐ 1988, 1991). The anthropological material of the 155 individuals dug up was taken into the collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum's Department of Anthropology under inventory numbers 94.1.1. to 94.1.155.. The argillacelous soil of the location did some wrong to the bones, therefore there was a large number of badly preserved, fragmented and incomplete skeletons. Methods of examination We worked with 23 sexual dimorphism bearing anatomical features for determining morphological sex (ÉRY et al. 1963, ÉRY 1992). Fig. 1. Geographical location of Kereki village