Crania Hungarica 4/1-2. (Budapest, 1961)

DATA TO THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE POPULATIOH OF AN ELEVEHTH CENTURY CEMETERY; GÄVA - MARKET /A Methodological Study/ By J. Name sir éri, K. Éry, A. Kralovénszky, L. Harsányt I Introduction Our study Intends to furnish «ore numerous, better verified and more detailed data than usual to the reconstruction of the physico-anthropological, ethnical, social and economic statue /!/-> We have chosen the anthropological and archaeological series of the eleventh century cemetery at Gáva-Markat consciously; it should serve as an example of a partial opening up in order to shot?, which degree of validity may be ascribed to the results and conclusions of the anthropological and archaeological data taken down from and the phenomena observed on an incomplete series of a very frag­mentary and not too carefully collected material. Research followed in the established way investigated the anthropological and archaeological material of the unearthed series as a unit generally, irrespective of its complets or partial character.drawing conclusions generalised to the whole population from the results obtained in this manner. But if we want to observe and to reconstruct the biological and social structure of the popula­tion, nay the laws determining them, we have to make the conditions of research more objective and its frames more extensive /2/,Accordingly we have to determine the biological and archaeological material of the investigated series exactly, in a manner that the statements verified by it should reflect the real measure of the conclusions drawn from the same. According to our working hypothesis we defined all circumstances, phenomena and data in our publication by reducing them to their basic components. In principle we established grades of valuation as regards the site /topography/ and date /chronology/ of the investigated series, the measure of its uncovering and its anthropological characteristics,each expressing the representative value of the named component. At variance with earlier practice, generalizing its results and expressing them in words only,we give the representative values used yto /rcr

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