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

in this study numerically, in order to make their objective valuation and comparison possible. To extend our survey to all details of the definable representative values would pass beyond the limits of the present study; we enumerate therefore all the phenomena characterised by us through representative values in the following items : 1/ Topography 2/ Degree of exploration /excavation, rescue excavation etc«/ 3/ The quantitative and qualitative condition of the anthropological sample: a/ estimation of sex, b/ estimation of the degree of sexualisation, c/ estimation of age, d/ metrical, morphological and typological determination, e/ observation of pathological changes. 4/ Chronology /for the entire sample and its components/ We have worked out the representative values contained in item 3 individually apd summarized them for the whole sample too. These summaries and the values mentioned in items 1, 2 and 4 are furnishing the basis of the conclusions which may be drawn from the published data. According to the named considerations we are publishing the archaeological and anthropological description of the partial' excavation grave by grave in the second chapter of our study. /3, 4/ To attain unity and perspicuity we give the archaeological data and the biological data of the skeletal finds in a division classified under the letters A to I.In the following we summarize the determining factors contained in the classification used in this study, their system and the key to the applied abbreviations, together with the representative values. A/ The general data of Vne grève. In the course of the excavations only a few data were taken down and even these in an unsatisfactory degree, as circumstances permitted. Our publication gives the available data as regards the depth and orientation of the grave, the length of the skeleton, the situation of the forearms,the msasuro of the disturbance, if any,and the degree of uncovering /1.0 * full unearthing/. B/ The general data of the skeleton. The textual formulation together with the quantitative and qualitative representative values informs the reader on the complete, partial or defective character of the skeleton and the state of its preservation. Quantitatively 1.0 * complete skeleton; qualitatively 1.0 = whole and unhurt skeleton. Quantitative and qualitative values less than 1.0 supply information as regards the number of the rescued skeletal remains and their unhurt or fragmentary condition at once. C/ Biological data. The data of biological characteristics determining the individual most generally, i.e. sex and age. The estimation of sex is based on 21 elementary sexual criteria. The representative value of an estimation gained from the 21 elementary sexual criteria is 1.0. A representative value less than 1.0 shows the number of the available elementary sexual criteria. In the case of a representative value less than 0.5 sex is but conditionally defined. Added to the estimation of sex, the value of sexualisation gives the degree of sexual character for the whole skeleton expressed in a mean value, based on five degrees in each of the elementary sexual criteria /from hyperxaaaculine: +2 to hyperfeminine: -2/. It is especially importent in cases in which sexj,ng is otherwise doubtful. The estimation and presentation of age is given on the basis of four age

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