Anthropologiai Közlemények
Journal Data
| Type | JOURNAL |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0003-5440 / 2560-0753 |
| Wikidata | Q27717905 |
| OpenAlex | S4210172185 |
| MAG | 4210172185 |
| Website | http://epa.oszk.hu/03100/03120 |
| Total publications | 218 |
| Coverage period | 2015 - 2026 |
| Country | HU |
| Language | HU |
| Access | Open Access |
| Impact factor | 0.05 |
"Anthropologiai Közlemények" is explicitly an anthropological journal, as indicated by its title ("Anthropological Communications"). It is a core venue for the discipline of anthropology
Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Body Composition Measurement Techniques · Bone health and osteoporosis research · Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis · Eurasian Exchange Networks · Forensic and Genetic Research · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factors · Historical and Archaeological Studies
A possible case of prenatal scurvy in a newborn from the early modern Kosice-Belanska cemetery
Background: The study presents skeletal remains of a subadult individual exhumed from the Kosice-Belanska cemetery, dated to the 18–20th century, in whom macroscopic changes typical of long-term vitamin C deficiency, known as scurvy, were identified. Objective: The aim of the study was to identify and document morphological indicators of scurvy in this individual and to contribute to the reconstruction of health status and living conditions of a …
Story of the villa estate
Background: Aquincum as the capital of Pannonia Inferior was once part of the Roman Empire. The human population here was a mixture of romanized autochton tribes and immigrants from across the Empire. Besides the civic and military towns, multiple villa estates were discovered by archaeologists in this area. One example for the latter is Csucshegy-Harsanylejto (3rd–4th centuries CE) where a grave group of 13 individuals were found directly next t…
Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis in a skeletal individual
Background: Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH), also known as Forestier’s disease, is a non-inflammatory degenerative disease of the spine and peripheral tendon attachments, characterized by calcification and ossification. In the axial skeleton, it primarily affects the ligamentum longitudinale anterius, but also the ligamentum longitudinale posterius and ligamenta flava, leading to the fusion of adjacent vertebral bodies. Objective:…
Reading disease in bone
Background: Tuberculosis has profoundly shaped human history, but skeletal diagnosis alone is often limited by non-specific lesions and preservation issues. Biomolecular methods therefore provide valuable complementary evidence for detecting tuberculosis in archaeological human remains. Objective: This study investigates pathological changes observed in a human skeleton excavated from the ancient city of Side (Antalya, Turkiye) and dated to the B…
Cranial sexual dimorphism in two contemporary European populations
Background: Sex estimation is a fundamental task in forensic anthropology and bioarchaeology. However, the expression of sexual dimorphism varies according to population specificity, secular trends, and biological as well as environmental factors. For this reason, it is necessary to validate existing methods and to develop new ones. Objective: To assess cranial sexual dimorphism in two European populations and compare patterns in cranial measurem…
Uncovering the genetic pleiotropy between obesity and hypertension in Roma population
Background: Obesity and hypertension disproportionally affect Roma people. Although shared genetic determinants are assumed to influence both blood pressure (BP) and adiposity related phenotypes, their contribution to these two sets of phenotypes in Roma population remains poorly understood. Objective: This study aims to estimate the shared genetic influence between adiposity and BP traits in a high-risk population like the Roma and to assess the…
Evaluation index for expansion pattern of center of pressure using center of pressure diagram in Japanese children
Background: Our previous research showed that standing postural stability develops until age 8 in Japanese girls and age 9 in Japanese boys. We have drawn up the assessment method for the standing posture of Japanese children (4 to 11 years old). However, we have not discussed how it can be clearly that parents and teachers can understand their assessment of COP in school settings. Objective: This study examined whether the expansion patterns of …
Digital natives
Background: Today's adolescents are immersed in a digital environment, with social networks central to their lives for entertainment, communication and getting information. Being online enables adolescents to share their daily experiences, opinions, emotions, attitudes and express their identity. Still, the displacement hypothesis suggests that time spent on media reduces the time available for other, offline activities (e.g., physical activity),…
Associations between smoking, alcohol consumption and bone quality in young adults
Background: The effects of smoking and alcohol consumption on bone health in older adults are well established, nonetheless their influence on bone quality in young adults remains limited. Objective: This study aimed to examine the relationship between bone quality, alcohol consumption, and smoking, considering the influence of physical activity (PA) and body composition. Subjects and methods: The sample included 1001 Slovak men and women aged 18…
Anthropological insights into a plague-era burial site from Europe’s first permanent lazaret
Background: The second plague pandemic spread throughout Europe between the fourteenth to eighteenth centuries and caused high mortality. As trade was instrumental in its spread, plague was prevalent in port cities such as Venice (Italy). Aiming to reduce transmission, Venetian health officials established Lazzaretto Vecchio in 1423 as the first permanent isolation hospital for individuals showing signs of infectious disease, including plague and…
Association between inhalant allergies and bone mass in young adults assessed by radial quantitative ultrasound
Background: Allergic diseases may affect skeletal health through chronic inflammation and immune-mediated mechanisms. However, evidence in young adults remains limited. Objective: The aim of this study was to examine the association between inhalant allergy and bone mass in men and women aged 18–30 years. Subjects and methods: The study included 649 young adults (256 men and 393 women). Bone mass was assessed using quantitative ultrasound (Sunlig…
Hunter-gatherers wolf interactions increased in the Franco-Cantabrian glacial refugee during the LGM before dog domestication
Background: Hunter-gatherers in the Late Palaeolithic developed several cultural and technical innovations, among which dog domestication outstands. The complex process of wolf-dog domestication seems to have been developed in several sub-regions of Eurasia. Among these regions, the Franco-Cantabrian Fringe (FCF) in Western Europe outstands for having some of the oldest morphometrically and genetically identified dog remains. On this basis, the M…
Validation of candidate SNPs and CpGs for human face prediction
Background: Human facial genetics remains challenging due to the complexity of facial morphology, its highly polygenic basis, and the combined influence of genetics, environment, age, and lifestyle on facial appearance. Objective: To develop predictors of human facial appearance that could aid facial reconstruction in forensic anthropology and predict facial appearance using DNA-based methods alone. Subjects and methods: Data from ~800 individual…
Physical exercise training and menopause
Background: Menopause, defined as the cessation of menstruation for a continuous period of 12 months, marks a significant transition in a woman’s life, typically occurring around age 51, characterised by physical and psychological changes that can negatively affect overall health and quality of life. Objective: This longitudinal study is designed as a non-randomized controlled trial to investigate the effects of a 12-week supervised physical exer…
Indoor microbiome diversity among asthmatic and healthy children – Hidden life in bed dust
that may influence children’s respiratory health. Objective: The aim of this research was to compare microbiome diversity and abundance in bed dust samples from children with asthma and healthy children and to explore associations with household and environmental factors. Subjects and methods: Bed dust samples from 150 children (69 with asthma, 81 controls) were analyzed using 16S rRNA and ITS sequencing. Microbial diversity and community composi…
Calcaneal quantitative ultrasonometry as a field-friendly tool for bone quality assessment in Italian postmenopausal women
Background: In postmenopausal women, bone quality assessment is essential for identifying skeletal fragility risk. The calcaneal bone quality index (BQI), assessed via quantitative ultrasound (QUS), represents a non-invasive, field-friendly alternative to dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA). Objective: To investigate the associations between BQI, body composition, menopausal duration and functional variables in Italian postmenopausal women. Su…
The impact of family patterns on children’s physical activity
Background: Physical inactivity is a leading risk factor for death from non-communicable diseases. People who are not active enough have a 20–30% higher risk of death than those who are active. Regular physical activity is associated with improved physical fitness, cardiometabolic health, bone health, cognitive outcomes, mental health, and reduced body fat in children and adolescents. People’s lives are becoming increasingly sedentary due to moto…
Examination of perimortem injuries to the postcranial skeleton in the human bone material from mass grave 3 associated with the battle of Mohacs (August 29, 1526 CE)
Background: The mass graves linked to the Battle of Mohacs (1526) are located at the Mohacs National Memorial Site in southern Hungary. Historical sources suggest that around 2,000 prisoners were executed after the battle and buried in these graves. After excavations in 1960 and 1976, mass grave 3 was re-excavated between 2020 and 2022, enabling detailed archaeological and anthropological analyses. Objective: To conduct an osteoarchaeological ana…
Sex differences in physical fitness and body composition changes after 4-week physical training in students
Background: An essential element of soldiers' efficiency and readiness to carry out tasks is their physical fitness, which is closely dependent on their body mass and composition, which in turn determine the proper functioning of the body. Subjects and methods: The aim of this study was to examine changes in physical fitness and body composition of students after a 4-week physical training. The study involved women (N=45) and men (N=45). Body com…
D imaging of mass graves in historical conflicts
Background: Background Mass graves, particularly those associated with historical conflicts, represent complex archaeological and anthropological contexts in which preservation issues, ethical constraints, and limited accessibility often hinder analysis. In such contexts, traditional macroscopic approaches are frequently insufficient to fully characterize skeletal lesions, especially when remains are fragmented, fragile or inaccessible. Recent ad…
Preliminary results of the paleopathological analysis of the human skeletal remains from mass grave 4 at the Mohacs National Memorial Site (1526 CE), Hungary
Background: The Battle of Mohacs in 1526 was one of the most decisive events in Central European history. The osteological material recovered from the five mass graves located at the Mohacs National Memorial Site is associated with this historical event. Between 2020 and 2024, two of these mass graves were excavated to gain insight into the individuals buried within them. Objective: The aim of the present study is to provide a preliminary report …
Preliminary results of the analysis targeting perimortem cut marks from the mass grave 3 connected to the battle of Mohacs, 1526 CE
Background: This year the 29th of August is the 500th anniversary of one of the most decisive battles of Late Medieval Europe. Five mass graves are known to be directly connected to the Battle of Mohács from the Ottoman expansion era. The pits contain human remains belonging to members of the defeated army of the Kingdom of Hungary. Between August of 2020 and October of 2022, mass grave 3 was completely excavated in three seasons revealing high n…
Socioeconomic status as a determinant of adiposity in children in the Moravian‐Silesian region
Background: Adequate body weight is considered one of the indicators of an individual’s health. Body fat ratio must be monitored to assess body weight adequacy, particularly for the prediction and diagnosis of overweight and obesity. As the literature documents, the amount of body fat among children of early school age is influenced by sex and their families’ economic status, suggesting an association between increased childhood obesity and econo…
Unearthing mortality crises, understanding past societies
Background: I began researching the archaeology and anthropology of mass graves in 1994 with the first excavation and interdisciplinary study of a plague burial site from the outbreak in Marseille in 1722. Since then, I have had the opportunity to study other sites associated with historical plague epidemics (both medieval and modern), as well as two mass graves resulting from the Napoleonic retreat from Russia in December 1812 (in Vilnius and Ko…
Early gut microbiota development and catch-up weight gain in full-term small for gestational age infants in the first year of life
Background: The gut microbiota undergoes dynamic changes during infancy, a period that coincides with intensive early growth and metabolic development. Objective: This study aimed to assess gut microbiota colonization patterns in full-term small for gestational age (SGA) infants with catch-up weight gain during the first year of life. Subjects and methods: The longitudinal cohort study included 19 full-term SGA infants and 46 full-term infants bo…
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Súlyos, fertőzéses eredetű csontelváltozás előfordulása a Kr. e. 6. évezred utolsó harmadában Versend-Gilencsa lelőhelyén
This article presents a new skeletal infection from the Middle Neolithic (Sopot culture) in the Carpathian Basin from the site of Versend-Gilencsa (6th millennium BC). The site yielded 27 burials from this period. During the biological anthropological and paleopathological examinations, the skeletal remains of an adult male (Grave 1078) displayed lesions: severe cavitation, collapse of vertebrae, hypervascularisation, inflammation on the sternum …
Megjegyzések a Kecskemét környéki etnikai vizsgálatokkal kapcsolatban
The preparation of a monograph on the city of Kecskemét and its surroundings has begun in the Katona József Museum of Kecskemét under the direction of Zsuzsanna Bereznai ethnographer, editor in chief of the upcoming book. One chapter of the monograph will be dedicated for the results of the anthropological investigation of the subadult and adult populations. The editor in chief entrusted one author of the present study with the preparation of thi…
Antropológiai-régészeti együttműködés a biológiai antropológiai maradványok roncsolásos mintavételének szabályozására
necessity to elaborate a sampling policy has emerged. As it is important to conduct research and at the same time to preserve specimens, our recommendation intends to help in deciding whether or not to grant permission for destructive sampling, bearing in mind the importance of the conservation of archaeological heritage and cultural
A Mycobacterium tuberculosis komplex archaikus DNS kimutatása humán csontvázmaradványokon
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the oldest diseases and still has \na high prevalence nowadays. The disease is pandemic, \naccording to the estimation of the WHO 30% of total \npopulation of the world may be infected latently by \nMycobacterium tuberculosis. \nSince the 1990s the identification of Mycobacterium \ntuberculosis infection has used molecular methods, too. \nPaleomicrobial research is also able to identify \nmycobacterial DNA from ancient…
A tuberkulózis előfordulása egy XVIII. századi váci családban
Tuberculosis cases in a Hungarian family, 18th century, Vc, Hungary. Two individuals of the Nigrovits family from the Vc Mummy Collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum were the subjects of multidisciplinary, anthropological, paleopathological, radiological, paleomicrobiological and paleoproteomic studies. The father, Jzsef Nigrovits (No 29), died at the age of 55 on the 11th of November 1793; his son, Antal Nigrovits (No 54), died on th…
A gyermek- és serdülőkori kövérség meghatározásának testzsírosság mutatóira épülő, új hazai határértékei
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Új filogenetikai mértékek és alkalmazásuk – Új nézőpontok a magyarok korai története kapcsán
The early Hungarian history is short of information and almost lack of relevant historical sources. Thus, linguists and archeologists played the most important role in founding the bases of the early Hungarian history. First of all, the linguists proved that the Hungarian language belongs to Ugric branch of Uralic language family. The other Ugric subgroup, the Ob-Ugrians are living in Western-Siberia, but there is a debate when and where the disj…
Komplementer morfológiai és kémiai antropológiai vizsgálatok régi emberi maradványokon
Chemical anthropology lays in the intersection of chemistry and biological anthropology. Our related investigations targeted the remains of 698 individuals from 5 archaeological sites. The samples also included the partially mummified remains of a neonate. During our investigations we applied many macromorphological, paleoradiological, paleohistological, paleomicrobial techniques, and several methodologies of chemical anthropology. Using XRF and …
Honfoglalók származásának és rokonsági viszonyainak vizsgálata archaeogenetikai módszerekkel
In the last few decades genetic analysis has been playing an \nincreasing role in tracing the origin and relation of human \npopulations. DNA sequences isolated from ancient human \nremains can be used, to unravel ancestor-descendant \nrelationships between populations and reconstruct population \nhistory.\nIn our research we successfully optimized ancient DNA \nextraction methods and adapted the latest haplotyping \nmethods. We complemented the …
Szomatotípus dominancia és szexuális érés
The purposes of the study were 1) to examine indices of \nsexual maturation in athlete girls having predominantly \nendo-, meso- and ectomorph physique; 2) to demonstrate \nalterations in somatotype by breast maturation. 813 pubertal \nathlete girls (aged between 10 and 17 years) belonging to \ndifferent sports events were studied. Somatotype was \ndetermined by the Heath–Carter method. Somatotype dominance \nwas decided arbitrarily: the cut-off …
Tuberkulózissal összefüggésbe hozható endocranialis csontelváltozások vizsgálata a Robert J. Terry Anatomical Skeletal Collection-ben (Washington, DC, USA)
Despite significant advances in the fight against tuberculosis (TB), it still presents a global health emergency. Therefore, a renewed interest and funding to the research of the disease and of its aetiological agents, including the palaeopathological diagnostics for TB, has sparked since the late 20th century to eliminate or at least control TB in the future. Traditionally, the palaeopathological diagnosis of TB relies on the identification of p…
Egyetemi hallgatónők vérnyomásának, tápláltsági állapotának és életvitelének összefüggései
Teachers are role models for their students by their exemplary lifestyle. A program was started at Primary and Pre-School Education Faculty, Eötvös Loránd University in 2013 for training more health-conscious teachers. In 2013–2014, 461 female students (aged 18–25 years) were examined by InBody 720 body composition analyzer and blood pressure analyzer (Omron M1 Compact). Questionnaires were used to collect data on chronic illnesses appearing in t…
Turner-szindrómások morfológiai jellegei, kariotípusa és kezelésük típusa közötti kapcsolat elemzése
Turner-syndrome is a genetic disorder that involves X-chromosome, and affects about 2500–3000 newborn girls around the world. The disease is accompanied by numerous clinical and morphological characteristics, therefore it is very important to study Turner-syndrome patients’ developmental pattern. The main aim of the study was to examine the relationship between the morphological characteristics, the karyotype and the type of treatment of patients…
Nagyvenyim-Munkácsy utca – Fűzfa utca lelőhely avar kori embertani leletei
At Nagyvenyim-Munkácsy utca – Fűzfa utca site skeletal remains of 22 individuals from the Avar period were unearthed. Metrical and pathological analysis were carried out on the badly preserved material. Despite of its few cases and bad preservation the sample from Nagyvenyim is an important contribution to the Avar period population on Mezőföld, as there is only one anthropological review from this period in the region by this time (Wenger’s repo…
Változások 1990 és 2017 között a magyar biológiai antropológiában
The author introduces changes and novelties occurring between 1990 and 2017 in Hungarian university departments, academic research facilities and national human biology research centres. Biological anthropology research projects of non-anthropology research institutions are also mentioned from the period of concern. Scientific congresses and conferences are enumerated, and the current problems of Hungarian scientific journals are mentioned. All t…
III. Béla király csontjainak tanúsága – Az Árpád-ház eredete
The role of applications based on machine learning is continuously growing in the industry, health sector/bioinformatics and scientific research. American researchers published a bit more than 10 years ago the first machine learning algorithms, which were able to safely predict Y-SNP based haplogroups from Y-STR data. The goal of the present study was to predict with machine learning algorithms the SNP-based subgroup of three ancient DNA samples …
Gyermekkorú maradványok összehasonlító biológiai antropológiai vizsgálata történeti népességekben
The process of biological adaptation to a certain environment can be studied by human remains both from a socio-cultural and a biological perspective. From a biological point of view, the skeletal remains of non-adults similarly to adult remains are suitable for acquiring such data that, if they are interpreted in depth, can provide a more complete picture of past lives. The dissertation attempts to interpret data of children from the Carpathian …
Egy specifikus büntetési forma? – Végtag-amputációs esetek a 9. századi Mosaburg (Zalavár) vonzáskörzetében
Mosaburg (Zalavár, Hungary) was the easternmost marquisate of the Frankish Empire in the second half of the 9th century. From this centre and its immediate agglomeration a surprisingly large number of limb amputation cases have been found. This paper presents three new finds, and reviews four cases published earlier. All the seven individuals were males with their left leg cut off just above the ankle joint (and with the simultaneous amputation o…
Az apai vonalú N haplocsoport szerepe a mai baskírok, tatárok és magyarok genetikai kapcsolatrendszerében
A specific genetic relationship under paternal haplogroup N among Hungarians, Bashkirs and Tatars is presented. The study identified two, approximately 2700–2800 years old paternal ancestor under subhapolgroup N-B539, whose descendants have so far been identified only among Hungarians, Bashkirs and Tatars. The descendants of one forefather form a specific subgroup under haplogroup N-B540, those of the other under N-B545. N-B540 is relatively rare…
Pszichoszomatikus tünetek gyakoriságát befolyásoló tényezők 18–90 éves nők körében
Psychosomatic health complaints are common in children and adults as well, and affect the quality of later life. Age tendency of psychosomatic complaints are influenced by regional, socioeconomic, environmental and lifestyle factors. Our aims were to reveal the age pattern of the psychosomatic health complaints in Hungarian women aged 18–90 years and to identify those components of lifestyle, body structure and environmental factors that affect t…
A Kelet-Dunántúl avar kori népességváltozásainak történeti embertani vizsgálata
During the Early Avar period, the Eastern-Transdanubian part of the Carpathian Basin was characterized by cultural heterogeneity. Beside the late antique and Germanic cultural elements the byzantine goods as well as the steppe traditions were included in the archaeological material of this period. The multicultural milieu completely disappeared by the beginning of the Late Avar Period that was defined by a much more standardized culture. In the l…
Kehida-Fövenyes 8–9. századi népességének történeti embertani vizsgálata
In our work, 167 individuals from the Late Avar Period cemetery of Kehida-Fövenyes (8–9th century) were analysed. Altogether 65 children, 36 males and 50 females were examined, however in the case of 16 adults the sex determination was not possible. The newborn age group (0–1 year) is underrepresented in the cemetery. A biological imbalance can be observed between the ratio of males and females. According to the demographic data and pathological …
Szarmata sebészi trepanációk a Kárpát-medencében
Despite the abundance of written resources and bioarcheological remains from the era, very few trephined skulls have been unearthed so far from the territory of the Roman Empire. In the territory of today Hungary, more than 130 surgically trephined skulls have come to light, with the earliest evidence deriving from the Neolithic period. However, the Hungarian literature does not mention any unequivocal Roman finds from the province of Pannonia (t…
Felső-Tisza-vidéki, rangos, honfoglaló férfi szobrászi arcrekonstrukciója a tuzséri temetőből
The mature age individual excavated from the Tomb 6 of Tuzsér-Boszorkány-hegy cemetery, was a member of the prestigious Hungarian conquering communities in the Upper Tisza region. He was a taxonomically mixed European and Mongolian type. On the top of his predominantly Europid Pamirian skull, two symbolic trepanations were also visible. His paternal genetic line links him to the “Yakut subgroup”, within it was classified in the Turkic-conquering …
Az emberi test kültéri hőterhelésének a humán állapothatározóktól való függése
A new clothing resistance model for estimating outdoor thermal load of a walking individual has been proposed by our research team. The model is used as a tool to analyse the relationship between clothing resistance (estimated by this new model) and body structural parameters in different weather conditions. More than 3000 children’s and adults’ body structural – BMI, relative fat mass (fatBMI) and relative muscle mass (muscleBMI) data, as well a…