Anthropological examination of the chronologically separated groups of the 11th-13th century Zalavár-Chapel (Zalavár-Kápolna) cemetery from Hungary
Katalin Wolff|Sándor Évinger|Tamás Hajdu|Gyula Gyenis
The Zalavár-Chapel (Hungarian: Zalavár-Kápolna) cemetery was found near the village Zalavár, located in western part of Lake Balaton, area Little-Balaton (in Hungarian: Kis-Balaton) Hungary. Burial around chapel started second half 11th century and finished 13th century. During this period, significant changes occurred burial customs, thus graves can be divided into four groups (horizons) chronologically. first horizon includes earliest, while third fourth latest burials. Earlier, it assumed that differences customs were signs population area. However, based on results our examination, used most probably by same throughout whole time. craniometric comparison skeletons Euclidean Penrose distance analysis with other 114 cemeteries--mainly from Carpathian-basin--showed majority studied originated 9th
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