Mecklenburg Collection, Part I: Data on Iron Age Horses of Central and Eastern Europe and Human Skeletal Material from Slovenia

by Sándor Bökönyi, J. Lawrence Angel, Hugh Hencken (Editor)

Overview

These three volumes deal with the Iron Age grave materials from Magdalenska gora, excavated by the Duchess Paul Friedrich von Mecklenburg-Schwerin. The Duchess of Mecklenburg, a member of an Austrian royal family with estates in Slovenia, conducted her excavations in the early years of the twentieth century. The materials from Magdalenska gora were purchased by the Peabody Museum in the 1930s. Volume I presents data and analysis of the horse remains and human skeletal materials.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780873655262
Publisher:	Harvard
Publication date:	12/01/2004
Series:	American School of Prehistoric Research Bulletins , #25
Pages:	116
Product dimensions:	7.38(w) x 10.25(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction

Hugh Hencken

Geographical Names in Slovenia with Alternate Forms

Map

DATA ON IRON AGE HORSES OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE

Sándor Bökönyi

Foreword

Chapter I: History of the Research of the Origin and Classification of Domestic Horses

Chapter II: European Domestic Horses of the Prehistoric Age

Chapter III: The Material Elaborated in the Present Work

Bone material published here for the first time

Magdalenska gora

Sticna, the cemetery at Sentvid

Brezje

Tápiószele

Szentes-Vekerzug

Velemszentvid

Chapter IV: Discussion of the Data of Measurements

Chapter V: Discussion of Results

Chapter VI: Pathological Lesions

Summary

Measurements

Bibliography

HUMAN SKELETAL MATERIAL FROM SLOVENIA

J. L. Angel

Introduction

Description

Type A

Type B

Type D

Type F

Type E

Type C

Comparison

Discussion

Conclusions

Tables

Bibliography