A honfoglaló magyarság embertani jellemzői. Kutatástörténeti vázlat
Anthropological Characteristics of the Conquering Hungarians: An Outline of the Research History

Summary/Abstract: The introduction of the study presents the discovery of the first conquering Hungarian grave in 1834, the beginnings of anthropological research and the most important skele-tal collections in Hungary. Henceforth, the author surveys the three main questions relat-ed to the anthropological characteristics of the conquerors. The first of these pertains to the characteristics of the skulls, including a presentation of the two anthropological groups of them, with their skeletal specifications pertaining to the history of their settle-ments, as well as the spatial and temporal specifics of their formation. The second ques-tion concerns the demographic characteristics of the Conquest Period from the perspec-tive of life expectancy, gender distribution and mortality indicators of the adult population. The third question deals with the most important injuries and pathological changes of the bones, with special attention to the practice of symbolic skull trephination, introduced in the Carpathian Basin by the ancient Hungarians. At the end of the study, the author also alludes to the promising researches related to the skeletal findings, presented by genet-ics, bone chemistry and physics.

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