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Aktivitás okozta csontelváltozások: a honfoglalás kori íjászsírok problémakörének újabb megközelítése

Tihanyi, Balazs

Révész, László

Berthon, William

Dutour, Olivier

Molnár, Erika

Pálfi, György

Magyar Biológiai Társaság

2015

CC Archaeology / régészet

GN Anthropology / embertan, fizikai antropológia

Activity-induced skeletal
markers: A new way to approach the problem of archery-related graves in the Hungarian
Conquest Period. In the recent decades the studies of activity-related skeletal markers provided
important information on the reconstruction of past life, but there are lots of questions yet. In this
paper we give the preliminary results of our bioarchaeological investigation focused on the
Hungarian Conquest Period populations’ activity-related skeletal markers. According to the
archaeological sources the bow was the common weapon of the Hungarians, so our base question
is whether the anthropological data do support this. The material of our investigation is the
“archers” and unarmed adult males from the 10th century cemetery of Sárrétudvari-Hízóföld. We
analysed macroscopically the muscular attachments of the affected bones of the shooting process –
the scapulas, humeruses, radiuses and ulnas. We perceived hypertrophies on wide scale of
muscles, and some of them appearing in high frequency shows similarity with the muscles involved
in archery. We can say that the archaeological and anthropological data certify each other
concerned the dominant activity of the “archer” group in the series.

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PeerReviewed

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http://real.mtak.hu/32940/7/Tihanyi_AK2015.pdf

Tihanyi, Balazs and Révész, László and Berthon, William and Dutour, Olivier and Molnár, Erika and Pálfi, György (2015) Aktivitás okozta csontelváltozások: a honfoglalás kori íjászsírok problémakörének újabb megközelítése. Anthropologiai Közlemények, 56. pp. 105-127. ISSN 0003-5440

http://real.mtak.hu/32940/

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