The possibilities of bone densitometry and monitoring occurrence of osteoporosis at the past populations.

Nowadays, disease of osteoporosis is worldwide problem. The question is whether osteoporosis affected people of past populations or increasing of osteoporosis is result of todayś time. Time, when people don't have enough of solar radiation and vitamin D, time when lifestyle does not match with the term healthy lifestyle. The goal of this work was to determine whether the buried persons at fort in Mikulčice had less of bone mass which indicates whether osteoporosis figured in their lives. The values of bone mass were obtained by densitometric measurements. The heel bones and fourth lumbar vertebras were measured. The work continued on a study in which femoral bones were measured. It means, if it was possible in terms of preservation, femoral bones, heel bones and fourth lumbar vertebras were measured in one person. Another goal of this work was to determine whether the values of the individual measurements show a significantly dependence on each other and whether would be possible to infer something about measure of one area from measurement of second area since the biggest problem of archaeological material is preservation and completeness of the material. The work has also a methodological contribution. The work provides precise description of measurement of the heel bones by using Lunar PIXI..