György Pálfi
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 95276 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | György Pálfi |
| NOMBRES | György |
| APELLIDO | Pálfi |
| FIRMA | PÁLFI G |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Szeged |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0989-4090 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 58 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 139 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 58 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1991 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
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…
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…
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 …
Bioarchaeological profiling and digital facial reconstruction of individual no. 95 from Mohacs mass grave 3
Background: Bioarchaeological investigations aim to reconstruct the biological profiles of past populations through the systematic analysis of human skeletal remains. Facial reconstruction is a specialized approach that complements these analyses by providing visual representations of historical individuals. Objective: To present the comprehensive biological and facial reconstruction of individual No. 95, recovered from a mass grave associated wi…
Execution-indicative sharp-force injuries in Mohacs mass grave 3 – Forensic medical aspects
Background: One of the five known mass graves associated with the Battle of Mohacs preserves the remains of approximately 370 individuals. Preliminary forensic observations suggested that many of the fatal injuries were more consistent with execution than battlefield combat. Objective: To identify patterns of perimortem trauma and evaluate the hypothesis of mass execution. Materials and methods: A representative sample of 45 individuals was selec…
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: At the Battle of Mohacs (1526 CE), the Christian army was defeated by an Ottoman force nearly three times its size. Historical sources indicate that during the battle, captives were taken, and about 2 thousand captives were executed two days later. Objective: To better understand the fate of these victims, we examined patterns of perimortem trauma in the skeletons of the mass grave IV (237 individuals) at the Mohacs National Memorial …
Methodological insights into the estimation of the minimum number of individuals from upper limb bones in the 16th-century CE mass grave 3 at the Mohacs National Memorial Site
Background: Estimating the minimum number of individuals (MNI) is a key challenge in the analysis of commingled burials. Although landmark- and zonation-based methods are widely used, their effectiveness depends on skeletal preservation and requires ongoing evaluation. Our team at the University of Szeged is investigating mass grave 3 (MGN3) at the Mohacs National Memorial Site, associated with the Battle of Mohacs (1526). The grave contains the …
Integrating geoinformatics and anthropological techniques for the resolution of complex commingled skeletal assemblages. The mass grave 3 at the Mohacs National Memorial Site
Background: This study outlines a methodology for the excavation and anthropological examination of partially commingled human remains from Mass grave 3 (MG3), associated with the 1526 Battle of Mohacs. Objective: The identity and circumstances of the demise of the individuals found in MG3 are the 2 main scientific questions. These can be answered after rearranging the disarticulated remains. Materials and methods: The presented methodology aims …
The Mohacs National Memorial Mass Graves
Objective: To present the progress, challenges, and preliminary anthropological results of the multidisciplinary investigation of the Mohacs mass graves. Subjects and methods: As the Mohacs National Memorial Mass Grave 3 excavation could not be completed in 2020, additional field campaigns were conducted in 2021 and 2022, the latter involving an international team. Following excavation, the skeletal remains were transferred to the University of S…
Estimating the minimum number of individuals in the 16th-century CE mass grave 3 at the Mohacs National Memorial Site – Methodological challenges and proposed modifications for the analysis of lower l…
Background: Mass grave analysis presents major challenges, particularly in identifying skeletal elements and estimating the minimum number of individuals (MNI) in commingled assemblages. While landmark- and zonation-based methods are widely used, their performance varies with fragmentation and preservation. We are investigating mass grave 3 (MGN3) at the Mohacs National Memorial Site, linked to the Battle of Mohacs (1526). The grave contains the …
Az állkapocscsont fejlődési rendellenességeinek előfordulása a mohácsi III. tömegsír csontanyagában
The development of the mandible is a complex process influenced by different environmental and genetic factors. These factors can cause changes in the morphology of the mandible, manifesting in anatomical variations and developmental anomalies. These alterations can be diagnosed during the examination of osteological materials. Our research focused on these characteristics in the human bone material of the mass grave III of the Mohács National Me…
A Mohácsi Nemzeti Emlékhely IV. tömegsírja feltárásának biológiai antropológiai megfigyelései
The excavation campaign of Mass Grave No. IV. started at the National Memorial Park of Mohács in June 2024. The well-organized, intensive archaeological and field anthropological work was carried out in cooperation between the Department of Archaeology, Janus Pannonius Museum and the Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Szeged. The observations of the field anthropology studies were very similar to the Mass Grave No. III. excavati…
First direct dating of the Late Neanderthal remains from Subalyuk Cave in Northern Hungary
The Subalyuk hominin remains were uncovered in 1932 in a cave of the same name in the Bükk Mountains, near the village of Cserépfalu in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, Northern Hungary. The remains represent two individuals, an adult and a young child who have been described in a few publications since their discovery, providing substantial anthropological data and general assessments of their Neanderthal affiliation. They were associated with Late …
Development of bilateral asymmetry of the upper limb in children from a medieval population in Central Europe, Hungary
This study examined the emergence and characteristics of bilateral asymmetry of the upper limb during development in a medieval agricultural population from Hungary, and investigated the agricultural activity-types in a bioarchaeological and biomechanical context. The skeletal remains of 169 nonadult individuals were selected from the cemetery of Bátmonostor-Pusztafalu, providing 134 cases for humeral diameter and length, 70 cases for radial leng…
On some mummy findings from the Semmelweis Museum of Medical History, Hungarian National Museum, Budapest
The permanent exhibition of the Hungarian National Museum, Semmelweis Museum of Medical History of Budapest, Hungary, displays some human remains believed to originate from ancient Egypt. Within the framework of the Nephthys Project, three objects consisting of two heads and one foot were studied via paleoimaging and archaeometric techniques in order to provide new anthropological and paleopathological data. It is argued here that even partial or…
New research of mass grave No. III at Mohács
In 2009, the Janus Pannonius Museum in Pécs renewed the archaeological research of the Battle of Mohács (1526) with outside partners (Bertók et al. 2020, 107–118). The goals of the initiative have been to identify the exact location of the historic clashes, reconstruct the chain of the related events, and conduct a scientific analysis of the final resting place of the soldiers who fell on the battlefield. We planned to complete the project by the…
A mohácsi III. számú tömegsír új kutatása
A pécsi Janus Pannonius Múzeum külső partnerek bevonásával 2009-től felújította az 1526-os mohácsi csata régészeti kutatását (ld. Bertók et al. 2020, 107–118) azzal a céllal, hogy az ütközet 500. évfordulójára megvalósulhasson a sorsdöntő eseménysor helyszínének pontos azonosítása, eseménysorának rekonstrukciója, és a csatában elhunyt katonák végső nyughelyének tudományos vizsgálata. E kutatás reményeink szerint lehetővé teszi azt is, hogy a nemz…
A previously undescribed cranial surgery technique in the Carpathian Basin 10th century CE
In this paper, the authors give a new insight to the indication and preparation of trepanations through the analysis of a newly discovered case of 10th‐century‐CE surgical trepanation found in the material of Sárrétudvari‐Poroshalom. We also intend to outline the implications of this particular case to the general methodology of trepanation research. We estimated basic anthropological data (sex and age‐at‐death) and performed analyses of paleopat…
New insights in the investigation of trepanations from the Carpathian Basin
The aim of this study is to describe four new cases of trepanation from the Great Hungarian Plain and complement two other previously published cases with new results from the 9th to 16th c. CE. Sex determination and age-at-death estimation were performed using classical macromorphological methods. In certain cases, radiographic imaging, 3D scanning, and radiocarbon dating were also performed. Our cases fit the formerly established understanding …
Insights into the diagnostic efficacy and macroscopic appearance of endocranial bony changes indicative of tuberculous meningitis
Recently, the combined macroscopic and statistical evaluation of 427 identified pre-antibiotic era skeletons from the Terry Collection (Washington, DC, USA) revealed that there is a positive association between tuberculous meningitis (TBM) and four endocranial alteration types, namely, granular impressions (GIs), abnormal blood vessel impressions (ABVIs), periosteal appositions (PAs), and abnormally pronounced digital impressions (APDIs). Althoug…
Komoly kihívás a szegedi antropológia számára
The 500th anniversary of the tragic 1526 Mohács battle is quickly approaching. The Duna-Dráva National Park, the manager of the Memorial Park of Mohács, has initiated a series of research and development to commemorate the battle anniversary, among others the excavation of some of the Memorial Park’s mass graves, the individual identification of the mixed human remains, the scientific examination of the skeletons and the individuals’ reburial wit…
Riding for a fall
Horse riding, a determinant activity in the history of human cultural evolution, remains unreliably identifiable from the analysis of human skeletal remains due to various sample and methodological limitations. Through a comparison between well-documented series of presumed riders and non-riders, this study aimed to investigate the link between skeletal fractures and that practice in past populations. We relied on a Hungarian Conquest period popu…
Boncolás nyomai egy XVIII. századi gyermek mumifikálódott testén
In 1994–1995, in the Church of the Whites, the corpses of 265 individuals dressed in funeral clothes, mummified to varying degrees, were unearthed from coffins excavated by the ethnographic museologists of the Ignác Tragor Museum, Vác (Hungary). The individuals were preserved by spontaneous mummification due to the crypt’s unique microclimate and burial pattern. Signs of an autopsy were found on the body of a 10-year old girl, Maria Theresa of Sw…
Brothers in arms
Investigation of warfare-related lifestyle based on the activity-induced skeletal changes is of great interest for bioarchaeologists. Numerous studies have described various skeletal traces connected to the regular practice of different types of weapons. However, methodological problems, such as the multifactorial aetiology of these presumed activity-related skeletal changes, make it difficult to evaluate which changes are reliable in the identif…
Strontium isotope analysis and human mobility during the Neolithic and Copper Age
Social formation and collapse in the Tisza-Maros region
Traces des activités sur les squelettes des anciens Hongrois
Pálfi György. Traces des activités sur les squelettes des anciens Hongrois. In: Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris, Nouvelle Série. Tome 4 fascicule 3-4, 1992. pp. 209-231
Maladies dans l'Antiquité et au Moyen-Âge. Paléopathologie comparée des anciens Gallo-Romains et Hongrois
Pálfi György. Maladies dans l'Antiquité et au Moyen-Âge. Paléopathologie comparée des anciens Gallo-Romains et Hongrois. In: Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris, Nouvelle Série. Tome 9 fascicule 1-2, 1997. pp. 1-205
Pre-Columbian congenital syphilis from the late antiquity in France
Today, exactly 500 years after the discovery of America, there is still a lot of controversy about the history of syphilis in Europe, especially about the Columbian and pre-Columbian hypotheses. This paper presents evidence for the presence of venereal treponematosis in the late Antiquity in France.The case that we examined comes from the necropolis of Costebelle (3rd-5th centuries AD; Hyères, Var, France). Grave no. 1 contained the well-preserve…
Horse riding and the shape of the acetabulum
Horse riding is a human activity that has particularly interested bioanthropologists and paleopathologists working on the reconstruction of activities from skeletal changes in ancient populations. However, various sample and methodological limitations, such as the absence of direct evidence connecting the individuals and the activity, result in a lack of confidence regarding what changes should be included in the so-called horse riding syndrome. …
Rare Types of Trephination from Hungary Shed New Light on Possible Cross-cultural Connections in the Carpathian Basin
Symbolic or incomplete trephinations are very common in Hungary in 9th–11thcentury AD skeletal series connected to early Hungarians, although they also occur in the preceding Avar Age (6th–9th c. AD) material. During the compilation of a database of regional cranial modification data, the authors found rare almond-shaped symbolic trephinations in both periods, while these had formerly only been reported in Early Hungarian series. In this study, t…
Skeletal manifestations of infantile scurvy in a late medieval anthropological series from Hungary
This study provides a review of the skeletal manifestations of infantile scurvy and presents four cases observed in the Bácsalmás–Óalmás series (247 subadults and 234 adults; 126 males, 113 females, 242 unknown sex) dating from the 16–17th centuries AD. In the case of these four infants (aged 6 months–3 years) bilateral porous bone lesions were found on the external surface of the cranial bones. In three cases, these features were associated with…
The first osteoarchaeological evidence of leprosy in Hungary
During examination of skeletal remains of a tenth century Hungarian cemetery, diagnostic features suggestive of leprosy were found in one case. The pathological changes of the skeleton consisted of rhino-maxillary changes, concentric diaphyseal remodelling of metatarsal bones and some other features characteristic of leprosy. The differential diagnosis was carried out by macroscopic morphological and radiological methods.This is the first palaeop…
Prehistory of human tuberculosis
La tuberculose a été considérée, pendant longtemps, comme une zoonose transmise à l’homme par des bovins, notamment lors du processus de domestication de l’aurochs au Néolithique. Des travaux de phylogénie moléculaire récents ont remis en question ce dogme, montrant que le complexe Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTBC) a existé comme pathogène humain depuis environ trois millions d’années. Cependant, des études récentes basées sur deux horloges moléc…
L'antiquité des tréponématoses dans l'Ancien Monde
Brun Jean-Pierre, Dutour Olivier, Pálfi György. L'antiquité des tréponématoses dans l'Ancien Monde: évidences historiques, archéologiques et paléopathologiques. In: Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris, Nouvelle Série. Tome 10 fascicule 3-4, 1998. pp. 375-409
First direct dating of the Late Neanderthal remains from Subalyuk Cave in Northern Hungary
The Subalyuk hominin remains were uncovered in 1932 in a cave of the same name in the Bükk Mountains, near the village of Cserépfalu in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, Northern Hungary. The remains represent two individuals, an adult and a young child who have been described in a few publications since their discovery, providing substantial anthropological data and general assessments of their Neanderthal affiliation. They were associated with Late …
Insights into the diagnostic efficacy and macroscopic appearance of endocranial bony changes indicative of tuberculous meningitis
Recently, the combined macroscopic and statistical evaluation of 427 identified pre-antibiotic era skeletons from the Terry Collection (Washington, DC, USA) revealed that there is a positive association between tuberculous meningitis (TBM) and four endocranial alteration types, namely, granular impressions (GIs), abnormal blood vessel impressions (ABVIs), periosteal appositions (PAs), and abnormally pronounced digital impressions (APDIs). Althoug…
Brothers in arms
Investigation of warfare-related lifestyle based on the activity-induced skeletal changes is of great interest for bioarchaeologists. Numerous studies have described various skeletal traces connected to the regular practice of different types of weapons. However, methodological problems, such as the multifactorial aetiology of these presumed activity-related skeletal changes, make it difficult to evaluate which changes are reliable in the identif…
Diagnostic paléopathologique des tréponématoses
Molnár Erika, Dutour Olivier, Pálfi György. Diagnostic paléopathologique des tréponématoses : à propos d'un cas bien conservé. In: Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris, Nouvelle Série. Tome 10 fascicule 1-2, 1998. pp. 17-28
New insights in the investigation of trepanations from the Carpathian Basin
The aim of this study is to describe four new cases of trepanation from the Great Hungarian Plain and complement two other previously published cases with new results from the 9th to 16th c. CE. Sex determination and age-at-death estimation were performed using classical macromorphological methods. In certain cases, radiographic imaging, 3D scanning, and radiocarbon dating were also performed. Our cases fit the formerly established understanding …
Partial mummification and extraordinary context observed in perinate burials
Knee Ankyloses Associated with Tuberculosis from the Medieval Hungary - Differential Diagnosis Based on Medical Imaging Techniques
Osseous ankylosis of large joints that occurs secondary to infection is rarely described in developed countries, thanks to diagnostic techniques that allow early detection and treatment of the underlying infection. Evidence of the natural history and progression of the disease is now primarily studied through the observation and analysis of osteoarcheological specimens, and medical reports or books dating from the pre-antibiotic era. This report …
Revision of tuberculous lesions in the Bácsalmás-Óalmás series - preliminary morphological and biomolecular studies
Previous investigations carried out in some parts of the 16th-17th century AD series of Bácsalmás-Oalmás (southern Hungary) have already provided interesting paleopathological cases of tuberculosis (e.g. Molnár & Pálfi 1994). These studies were essentially based on macromorphological analysis, biomolecular methods were used only in a few cases (e.g. Haas et al. 2000). From a macromorphological point of view, former investigations have only consid…
Analysis of ancient mycolic acids by using Maldi TOF MS
New perspectives in biomolecular paleopathology of ancient tuberculosis
Les épidémies
Bley Daniel, Dutour Olivier, Pálfi György. Les épidémies : passé et présent. In: Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris, Nouvelle Série. Tome 10 fascicule 1-2, 1998. pp. 3-4
The first osteoarchaeological evidence of leprosy in Hungary
During examination of skeletal remains of a tenth century Hungarian cemetery, diagnostic features suggestive of leprosy were found in one case. The pathological changes of the skeleton consisted of rhino-maxillary changes, concentric diaphyseal remodelling of metatarsal bones and some other features characteristic of leprosy. The differential diagnosis was carried out by macroscopic morphological and radiological methods.This is the first palaeop…
Pre-Columbian congenital syphilis from the late antiquity in France
Today, exactly 500 years after the discovery of America, there is still a lot of controversy about the history of syphilis in Europe, especially about the Columbian and pre-Columbian hypotheses. This paper presents evidence for the presence of venereal treponematosis in the late Antiquity in France.The case that we examined comes from the necropolis of Costebelle (3rd-5th centuries AD; Hyères, Var, France). Grave no. 1 contained the well-preserve…
Traces des activités sur les squelettes des anciens Hongrois
Pálfi György. Traces des activités sur les squelettes des anciens Hongrois. In: Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris, Nouvelle Série. Tome 4 fascicule 3-4, 1992. pp. 209-231
La villa romaine des Platanes à Saint-Tropez (Var)
In 1995 an emergency excavation was carried out on a Roman Villa known by researches dated back to 1930 but still unpublished. The synthesis of old and recent data allows to distinguish eight phases of evolution of the ancient living conditions on a period spreading out from the first century B.C. till the sixth century A.D. Though the study does not bring any evidence concerning the identification of Saint-Tropez as the town of Athenopolis menti…
Maladies dans l'Antiquité et au Moyen-Âge. Paléopathologie comparée des anciens Gallo-Romains et Hongrois
Pálfi György. Maladies dans l'Antiquité et au Moyen-Âge. Paléopathologie comparée des anciens Gallo-Romains et Hongrois. In: Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris, Nouvelle Série. Tome 9 fascicule 1-2, 1997. pp. 1-205
Les épidémies
Bley Daniel, Dutour Olivier, Pálfi György. Les épidémies : passé et présent. In: Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris, Nouvelle Série. Tome 10 fascicule 1-2, 1998. pp. 3-4
Diagnostic paléopathologique des tréponématoses
Molnár Erika, Dutour Olivier, Pálfi György. Diagnostic paléopathologique des tréponématoses : à propos d'un cas bien conservé. In: Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris, Nouvelle Série. Tome 10 fascicule 1-2, 1998. pp. 17-28
Radiologie des infections osseuses en paléopathologie
Panuel Michel, Pálfi György, Dutour Olivier. Radiologie des infections osseuses en paléopathologie. In: Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris, Nouvelle Série. Tome 10 fascicule 1-2, 1998. pp. 179-187
L'antiquité des tréponématoses dans l'Ancien Monde
Brun Jean-Pierre, Dutour Olivier, Pálfi György. L'antiquité des tréponématoses dans l'Ancien Monde: évidences historiques, archéologiques et paléopathologiques. In: Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris, Nouvelle Série. Tome 10 fascicule 3-4, 1998. pp. 375-409
Molecular evidence for different stages of tuberculosis in ancient bone samples from Hungary
This paleomicrobiologic study was conducted on osseous tissue specimens from ancient Hungarian skeletal samples from the 7-8th and the 17th centuries AD with typical macromorphologic evidence of osseous tuberculosis (n = 3), morphologic alterations probably due to tuberculosis (n = 6), or with nontypical osseous changes of vertebral bodies suggestive of inflammatory reaction (n = 5). From these bone samples, DNA was extracted and amplified by pol…
Analysis of ancient mycolic acids by using Maldi TOF MS
New perspectives in biomolecular paleopathology of ancient tuberculosis
Strontium isotope analysis and human mobility during the Neolithic and Copper Age
Skeletal manifestations of infantile scurvy in a late medieval anthropological series from Hungary
This study provides a review of the skeletal manifestations of infantile scurvy and presents four cases observed in the Bácsalmás–Óalmás series (247 subadults and 234 adults; 126 males, 113 females, 242 unknown sex) dating from the 16–17th centuries AD. In the case of these four infants (aged 6 months–3 years) bilateral porous bone lesions were found on the external surface of the cranial bones. In three cases, these features were associated with…
Revision of tuberculous lesions in the Bácsalmás-Óalmás series - preliminary morphological and biomolecular studies
Previous investigations carried out in some parts of the 16th-17th century AD series of Bácsalmás-Oalmás (southern Hungary) have already provided interesting paleopathological cases of tuberculosis (e.g. Molnár & Pálfi 1994). These studies were essentially based on macromorphological analysis, biomolecular methods were used only in a few cases (e.g. Haas et al. 2000). From a macromorphological point of view, former investigations have only consid…
Reliability of anthropometric parameters in the prediction of the visceral fat area among adult women
Visceral fat accumulation is a risk factor for cardiometabolic diseases. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) provided the most accurate techniques of abdominal fat assessment, but these methods are very expensive. The aim of this study was to examine and compare the predictive ability of simple anthropometric parameters for visceral fat area (VFA) among adult women in different age and obesity status groups. The sample c…
Population genomics of Bronze Age Eurasia
The Bronze Age of Eurasia (around 3000–1000 BC) was a period of major cultural changes. However, there is debate about whether these changes resulted from the circulation of ideas or from human migrations, potentially also facilitating the spread of languages and certain phenotypic traits. We investigated this by using new, improved methods to sequence low-coverage genomes from 101 ancient humans from across Eurasia. We show that the Bronze Age w…
Condition assessment of two early Christian martyrs’, St. Christine's and St. Augustine's relics with paleoradiological methods in Hungary
Activity - induced skeletal markers
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’ activit…
Symbolic trephinations of unusual shape from the Southern Great Plain
Symbolic trephinations of unusual shape from the Southern Great Plain. Symbolic trephinations are very common in the 9th-11th century AD skeletal material in Hungary. During the compilation of a database of regional cranial modification data, the authors found several new cases in Late Avar and Conquest Period series. In this study, the symbolic trephinations of 14 skulls are described from the 8th-11th centuries AD in the Southern Great Plain of…
Rare Types of Trephination from Hungary Shed New Light on Possible Cross-cultural Connections in the Carpathian Basin
Symbolic or incomplete trephinations are very common in Hungary in 9th–11thcentury AD skeletal series connected to early Hungarians, although they also occur in the preceding Avar Age (6th–9th c. AD) material. During the compilation of a database of regional cranial modification data, the authors found rare almond-shaped symbolic trephinations in both periods, while these had formerly only been reported in Early Hungarian series. In this study, t…
Knee Ankyloses Associated with Tuberculosis from the Medieval Hungary - Differential Diagnosis Based on Medical Imaging Techniques
Osseous ankylosis of large joints that occurs secondary to infection is rarely described in developed countries, thanks to diagnostic techniques that allow early detection and treatment of the underlying infection. Evidence of the natural history and progression of the disease is now primarily studied through the observation and analysis of osteoarcheological specimens, and medical reports or books dating from the pre-antibiotic era. This report …
Anthropometric dimensions provide reliable estimates of abdominal adiposity
Parallel palaeogenomic transects reveal complex genetic history of early European farmers
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
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