Dr. T. Tóth szerk.: Etudes d'anthropologie historique concernant le bassin du Danube moyen (Anthropologia Hungarica 7/1-2. Budapest, 1966)

Forehead wide, eurymetopic. Arcus superciliaris medium strong. Entire sutura metopica. Upper face and entire face medium high, wide by its index, medium broad. Orbital high, nasal root wide, nasal ridge straight, lower seotion convex. Nose wide, lower margin with fossa praenasalis. Fossa canina 2-3. Zygomatic arc wide. Alveolar prognathism. Calculated stature 168 cm, middle tall. Facial profile Europoide /Cromanoide B type/. To sura up the skulls described above, sixteen graves yielded well or badly preserved complete skeletons, four graves contained only skulls, and one merely a skeleton. As is to be seen from the detailed description, the majority of the findings are rather fragmentary and badly preserved, allowing the examination of only a few bones, and precluding any extensive generalizations. Despite the great importance of a paleodemographic evaluation, it cannot be given here, due to the small number of interprétable material. With respect to the distribution of age, all categories from juvenile to senile occur. I have taken the measurements of the three juvenile individuals Table I. Distribution per sex and age according to localities. Age luv en is Adui

tus Maturus Senilis Total Sex Locality S S ? S <? I. Early Avar Period Békásmegyer Óbuda Szöllö u. Törökbálinti ut 1 1 1 1 1 • 1 I. Early Avar Period Rákospalota 1 1 1 1 Late Period Soroksári ut 1 1 1 1 Late Period Rákoshegy 1 4 1 3 2 7 Ú & Rákos-torony 1 1 1 2 1 Rákoskeresztúr 1 1 1 1 /Table I/, and also publish them herein, but left them out from the oommon evaluation. Thus subsequent examination was delimited to 7 adults, 10 mature and 1 senile individuals. No infantile bones were found in the graves. The correctness of the identification as to sex and age was substantiated by the biochemical analyses of Dr. I. LENGYEL. Identifications as to sex agrees in hundred per cent. Concerning age, our determinations differ in the case of two persons /5-10 years of differences of identical direction/. This difference is interesting insofar as it concerned in both cases individuals of a Mongoloidé type, but still insufficient to allow inferences of any kind. I. LENGYEL*

s biochemical technique reveals also pathological cases and blood-groups /LENGYEL, 1963/. Seven individuals belonged to blood-group B, three to 0, two to A, and one to AB. 'Recently, however, no great importance is being attached to the showing of blood-groups from a paleoanthropological point of view, since, for instance, the chemical effects of the soil may render findings questionable, but I also included these data for the sake of completeness.