Dr. T. Tóth szerk.: Etudes d'anthropologie historique concernant le bassin du Danube moyen (Anthropologia Hungarica 7/1-2. Budapest, 1966)
ANTHROPOLOGIA HUNGARICA TOME VII. No 1-2. Section Anthropologique du Musée d'Histoire Naturelle DATA TO THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE AVAR PERIOD POPULATION OF BUDAPEST By 0. Bottyán To Professor M. MALÁN, to His 65Life Aniversary, with Greatfulness from His Student. During the Avar Period, the area of Greater Budapest had been occupied in several waves by divers ethnic groups,and it is quite probable that as well Pest as its neighbourhood played an important part in the history of the Avar Period, and the more did so as the east-west route passed here on the northern part of the Great Plains and the traces of settlements can everywhere be found at the sites of the guarded forts. The archeological observation, that the Roman colonizations were everywhere shunned by the „Avar" settlements is worthy of note /ALFÖLDI, NAGY, LÁSZLÓ, 1942/. The aim of my work is to examine and work out some osteologlcal remains of the Avar Period found in the course of various excavations made in Budapest and its environment. P. LIPTÁK' s first paper on the anthropology of the population of Budapest was Intended to launch a serial work, encompassing the evaluation of the anthropological materials of the sixth, seventh and eight centuries. The first paper worked up the osteologlcal material found in seventeen graves, exposed during earthwork in laying the foundations of the People's Stadium,and it was published in volume 20 of the Archeology of Budapest /LIPTÁK, 1963/. The present material was excavated in the following localities /from east to west/ : The most important and the richest in data derives from the Avar cemetery in Rákoshegy, systematically excavated by the well-known archeologist T. NAGY, in 1955. Of the osteologlcal material, the skeletal remains of nine individuals oould be saved for research purposes. Seven of the nine individuals were females, a strikingly high number of this sex. Age was determined by a rather meagre amount of archeological finds /earthenware, earrings, iron knife, clay vessels, etc/, and set for the VHIth century A.D. + Two grave-diggers found bones of extraordinary sizes in the cemetery of Rákoskeresztúr, in 1950. The scientific exposition was led by É.BONIS, of the Archeological Department of the Museum of the Capital. According to F. KŐSZEGI, of the same Institute, they can be dated, on the basis of the archeological finds, to the late Avar Period. ++ + Oral communication of Dr. T. NAGY. + Oral communications of Dr. É. BONIS and Dr. P. KŐSZEGI.
