Dr. T. Tóth szerk.: Etudes d'anthropologie historique concernant le bassin du Danube moyen (Anthropologia Hungarica 7/1-2. Budapest, 1966)
KÉRI, 1943/, Áporka-Ürbőpuszta /LIPTÁK, 1951/, Alattyán-Iulát /WENGER, 1952/, Váohartyán /BÁTAY, 1952/, Jánoshida-Tótkérpuszta / WENGER, 1953/, Kecel I. /LIPTÁK, 1954/, Ü116 I., II. /LIPTÁK, 1955/, Homokmégy-Halom /LIPTAK, 1956/, Szebény /TÓTH, 1961/, Csákberény /TÓTH, 1962,a/, Budapest-Népstadion /LIPTÁK, 1963/, Ártánd-Kapitánydülő /ÉRY, MS/. As far as the regional aspect iß concerned, I have tried to follow the east-west route along the northern confines of the Plains, and that also Homokmégy-Halom, Kecel I, and Szebény had been included in the series was due to the fact that these materials were also similar to out male series, even though Homokmégy-Halom and Kecel I. are situated on the southern part of the plains between the Danube and the Tisza. The majority of similar features, with respect to the males were detected with this very series. On the other hand, the Szebény findings are nearer to the Homokmégy-Halom series than to ours /Table IX/ . In the comparison, the mean values of the metric and index data, important from the racial diagnostic point of view according to the Martin order of sequence, had been considered. /Six measurements, seven indices, and finally the stature data are compared./ In the Table of comparison, not all of the examined cemeteries had been included, but only those of interesting similarities and differences. In comparing the male series, the following picture is received /Table X/ ; the material of Homokmégy-Halom shows a great similarity, where the nearness of the means refer to nine characteristics. The differences are more considerable with respect to the basion-bregma height; thought it is medium,it is still lower, due to the proportion of the cranial breadth /17:8/. The orbitale are medium high; as for stature, the Homokmégy-Halom population is average, whereas it is middle short in our male series. Üllő I., and Kecel I., display similarities in seven characteristics each, according to the arithmetical means, while üllő II., Csákberény, and Szebény show six similar charactermeans each. It is readily understandable that the males of our small series reveal features similar to those of the Avar Period population of Homokmégy-Halom, since Homokmégy-Halom is purely Europoide also in the primary taxonomic characters /LIPTÁK, 1956/. Concerning the secondary characters, its majority is Europo-brachycranial . Similar types occur in Üllő II., Csákberény, and Szebény /Europo-brachyoranial-Protoeuropoide-Mediterranean/, whereas there are also Mongoloidé racial elements in Kecel I., and Üllő I. With due consideration to alBO these aspects, our Avar Period male series should agree in several more features with Üllő II., than with Üllő I., because also in our material the Europoide preponderance appears in the males.Only a single individual has a Europo-Mongoloide appearance /Nr. 6288, Rákoskeresztúr/, influencing the arithmetic means but to a slight degree. There are no similarities with the males of Mosonszent jános and BudapestPeople's Stadium; this is quite natural ,since the populations of both cemeteries display dominantly Mongoloïde features. It Is well-known that in the majority of treatises, discussing the anthropological problems of ethnogenesis ,the basis of evaluation is an analysis of the secondary taxonomio characters, as compared also in the present paper. However, according to the experiences gained in the examination of the Avar Period finds in the area of Greater Budapest,the analysis of the structure of also the facial skull is an extremely important, primary taxonomical requirement. As it proved also by the comparison with the population of Üllő I., a similarity of the arithmetic means does concurrently mean an ethnic agreement but only a morphological resemblance, and a clearer picture is received if also the analysis of the
