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- Title
The anthropological assessment of the Late Roman cemetery at somogyszil-Dögkúti dűlő.
- Authors
Évinger, Sándor; Bernert, Zsolt
- Abstract
The results of a general anthropological examination of 140 individuals from a late Roman period cemetery at Somogyszil-Dögkút site are presented in this paper. The population had a more or less balanced sex ratio, lived a fundamentally peaceful life suggested by the low frequencey of bone injuries, and according to their morphoscopic traits, they all belonged to the Caucasoid group. Based on the biological distances calculated from selected linear measurements of male crania, the population of Somogyszil-Dögkút proved to be quite similar to several other late Roman period cemeteries in Transdanubia, as well as to some local Avar period series. This raises the possibility of a significant local continuity between the late Roman and late Avar period on this territory, however other potential explanations cannot be ruled out. Some anthropological characteristics of the human skeletal material unearthed from graves oriented differently than the cemetery's norm suggest the presence of immigrants in the community. Their biological background cannot be traced from the present data, however a few skeletal evidence proposes the probability of a Sarmatian origin.
- Subjects
LENGTH measurement; CEMETERIES; BONE injuries; ROMANS; SEX ratio
- Publication
Acta Archaeologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 2019, Vol 70, Issue 1, p137
- ISSN
0001-5210
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1556/072.2019.70.1.5