Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic TY - JOUR JO - Anthropologie (Brno) TI - Craniometric Characteristics of Some Early Medieval Skeletons from Borovce (Piešany District, Slovakia) Connected with Allochthonic Spur with a Buckle for Tying: A Multivariate Analysis (PCA) AU - Šefčáková A AU - Thurzo M AU - Katina S AU - Staššíková-Štukovská D Y1 - 2006 VL - 44 IS - 2 PB - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic SN - 0323-1119 SP - 151 EP - 165 KW - Early Middle Ages KW - Skulls KW - Metrics KW - Principal component analysis KW - Atypical artefacts N2 - N2 - Anthropological and statistical analysis was applied to a group of skeletons (six adults and four infants) from an early medieval burial site at Borovce (district of Piešany, Slovakia), connected chronologically and locally with burial 221/92 that contained atypical spurs with a buckle for tying. The morphological similarity, based on craniometric relationships among the individuals of that group and a part of the remaining burial site, was analysed using principal component analysis (PCA) which, however, did not reveal any allochthonic influences. ER -