The dietary trends and social relations in the migration period.

Central Europe is situated just in the place, where two main eastern and western migration waves overlaped in the Migration period (4th to 6th centuries). The progress of the eastern migration wave, its beginning, course and disappearance is characterised by deformations of skulls. The deformations are indirect expression of the migrations of the Huns and the Sarmatian-Alanian tribes.

Case reports: Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease in Czech archaeological material.

Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease (osteochondrosis of the femoral head) has been recognized in archaeological material for nearly a century but is extremely rare. We describe two Czech cases from archaeological findings. The first case was diagnosed in the skeleton of a man older than 50 years with the left hip affected.