Research area and keywords of research:
Anthropology
(Keywords: human biology, anthropology, ancient human bones, bioarchaeology, palaeopathology, population reconstruction)
Name of the researcher(s) and research group:
- Dr. István János PhD
Name of the Institute:
University of Nyíregyháza, Institute of Environmental Science
Research objectives:
Morphological, anatomical and pathological analysis of human skeletal remains. Elemental analysis of human bone samples.
Description and results of research:
I am physical anthropologist and my special field of interest focuses on morphological, craniometrical, pathological and palaeodemographical analysis of human skeletal remains. I am working on further research projects such as morphological analysis of human skeletal remains from the Arpadian age and the age of the Hungarian conquest. I am also interested in elemental analysis of human bone samples. On the basis of elemental status, we can draw conclusions from the nutrition and diseases of ancient populations. Additionally, I am taking part in a multidisciplinary research project which focuses on Egyptian mummies of Gamhud. These mummies came to light during the only Hungarian Egyptian excavation. I am working with cooperation with more Hungarian and international research institutes.
Research partners from other institutions:
- László Szathmáry (University of Debercen)
- Mónika Molnár (University of Debrecen)
- Enikő Szvák (University of Szeged)
- Cristina Tica (University of Nevada, USA)
- Anna Spinek (Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences,Wrocław, Poland)
Other information:-
Publications (max. 5):
- Molnár M, Szathmáry L, Szűcs L, Széll RF, Janos I (2019): A unified descriptive method for analysing artificial cranial deformation from a palaeopathological perspective. Archaeological and anthropological Science. 11: 5553–5568 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-019-00890-9 IF:1,978
- János I, Szathmáry L, Szűcs L, Molnár M. 2018. Presentation of some artificially deformed crania (5th-6th century AD) from Northeastern Hungary. 21th Congress of European Anthropological Association. Odensee, Denmark. 22-25 August 2018.
- János I, Szathmáry L, Lajos Hüse (2014): Pagan-Christian Change in Northeastern Hungary in the 10th-13th Centuries AD - a Palaeodemographic Aspect. Collegium Antropologicum. 38, 305-317. IF: 0,611
- Molnar M, Janos I, Szűcs L, Szathmáry L (2014): Artificially deformed crania from the Hun-Germanic period (5th-6th century AD) in northeastern Hungary: historical and morphological analysis. Neurosurgical Focus. 36/4: E1. IF: 2,487
- János I, Szathmáry L, Nádas E, Béni Á, Dinya Z, Máthé E (2011): Evaluation of elemental status of ancient human bone samples from Northeastern Hungary dated to the 10th century AD by XRF. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms. 269: 2593-2599. IF: 1.211