[Pathologic, morphologic and anthropologic characteristics of Avarian teeth and jaws from graves in Becej]

During the reconstruction of the water pipe lines, in Pionirska street, at Bechej in 1989, a part of a large graveyard was uncovered. Human remains were found in graves, below the level of the underground water, so that the most of the human skeletons were either completely destroyed, or partly preserved. A few graves were damaged during excavations in previous ears and some of the graves were robbed also at an earlier period. Paleopathological and anthropological investigation carried out at the Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine in Novi Sad, revealed that these remains belong to an Avarian population which had similar epigenetic and anthropometric characteristics as the Avarian population found at the well known site at Kiskoros Vagohid, in Hungary, precisely the skeleton from the grave No. XXXV. Study of the teeth and jaws complete these results. At six mandibles, which belong to the mature skeletons, was found narrowness in the frontal region of the mandibular alveolar arch was recorded. Degree of narrowness of the frontal mandibular dental arch, deficient in space at mandibles was different, and varied from 2 mm to 8.5 mm, or 3 to 24.38%, which is necessary to set the teeth in the correct line in a mandible.