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facial profile is made. The connection of the examinable and interprétable six female skulls should be sought for in the groups with a Mongoloidé character. If, of the small series materials, the means of that from the People's Stadium is investigated, it will be found that there are similarities only in three features, and they too are facial agreements. In spite of the fact that the females of the Stadium material are also Mongoloids, they are of a different character /Yenisei and Baikalian; LIPTAK, 1959/. There are five agreements in charaoter with the Mosonszent jános finds, the majority referring again to the structure of the brain case while the facial skull is quite different /except for the wide nose, characteristical also of the females in our material/. The agreement with the öskü material is more significant, involving the tendency to converge of six features, and they are mainly facial similarities. Since, in the öskü material, the Yenisei-type is dominant /LIPTÁK, 1959/, cha­racterized also by a wide face, high orbitals, wide nose, and alveolar progna­thism, the low faced Mongoloids of the Budapest group display the same facial features. The situation is different with respect to the Csákberény material, where agreements as to the shape of the brain case can also be found, whereas the facial section is entirely different /Table X/. Nor could there be a similarity in type, since the Csákberény females are Europoids. Looking for connexions with larger series, one finds that Üllő I. reveals six,and Üllő II. eight, agreements in characteristics. While the similarity of Üllő I. is a real agreement, due to a Mongoloïde dominancy /LIPTÁK, 1957/, the similarity of eight features with Üllő II., is but a morphological convergence of data, since the üllő II. females are Europoids. Separated into localities, the secondary taxonomic characters show the fol­lowing destribution: Cro-Magnonide B /Rákoshegy/ Europo-brachyoranial /Békásmegyer - Rákoskeresztúr/ Gracile - Mediterranean /Rákospalota - Soroksár/ Pamiro - Turanide /Rákoskeresztúr/ Low-faced Mongoloidé /Rákoshegy/ Inner-ABiatio /Rákóshegy/ With respeot therefore to both the primary and secondary taxonomic charac­ters, the material is strongly heterogeneous. Summarizing the results derived from the examination of the material under disoussion, it can be established that the study of such small numbers of osteo­loglcal finds or oemeteries results in the most open problems. However, some facts and inferences might still be drawn and summed up as follows: 1. The material is not homogeneous, neither as regards localities /eight cemeteries, mostly represented by one or two osteologlcal finds, the highest being the nine graves of Rákoshegy/ severely delimiting the possibilities of evaluation, nor with respeot to chronology /the finds .of the early and late Avar Periods - Vlth-VIIIth oent. - had been worked up in a comprehensive study due to the meagre amount of material/. At the same time, the historical souroe value of the material cannot be denied. 2. The Europoide and Mongoloidé components of the continental branches are equally represented in the material. On this basis and in accordance with BAR­TUCZ's classification, the finds discussed herein can be relegated to the mixed, or second category of, Avar Period cemeteries. 3. As concerns type-mosaic, the composition is as follows: while the male series represents Europoids and Europo-Mongoloids,there occurs also a definitely

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