Dr. T. Tóth szerk.: Paleoanthropological studies (Anthropologia Hungarica 8/1-2. Budapest, 1968)
individuals over 50 years of age; this occurred equally in the cervical, dorsal and lumbar regions, mostly, however, in the two latter areas. In the females, it appeared only in a slight degree, and only in the cervical vertebrae, in four cases (28,5 $>) in individuals over 50 years of age. In one female, a marked deformation of the left caput femoris and the left acetabulum, causing also the retarded development of the shaft of the left femur, occurred; it was presumably due to a congenital defect (luxatio coxae). 3. Inflammatory processes. In one male, the inner surface of the left orbita became perforated in an extensive area owing to the inflammation of the Highmore cavity . 4. Dental state. The state of the teeth of the population,and especially that of the males, is mainly characterized by a strong abrasion. According to MURPHY' s (1959) scheme, the abrasion of mostly the frontal teeth is in a progressed state, the molars being much less worn. This highly abraded frontal dentition is not observable in the females; the frequency of lost teeth while still alive is,however, significantly greater in this latter sex. The frequency, examined only for the Maturus group, is 42,5 $ in the females and merely 13,5 $> in the males. Caries occurred in five cases (41,7 1°) in adult females, and in one case (7,7 1°) in the males. Cysta mandibularis et maxillaris occurred in three females only (25,0 $>). With respect to the above diagnoses , Dr .LENGYEL made the following statements. In general, the pathological phenomena, detectable by laboratory methods, of bones can be separated into groups involving processes causing histological or chemical changes. No pathological process generally effecting the micromorphological structure of the osseous findings occurred in the material. Among the pathological processes, however, causing changes in the chemical composition of the bones, there could be observed rachitis in the age group Inf ans I, and osteoporosis senilis in all male individuals over 40 years of age. X X JE Finally, an attempt should be made to look for eventual parallels between the population at Majs and other contemporary groups. The possibilities of investigations in this regard are, however, rather restricted. On account of methodological considerations, the male series of Majs should be omitted from the comparisons, since the large variations of their mean values would render all further calculations, based on them, unsafe. Thus the search for parallels has to be delimited to merely the female series. A certain difficulty was caused by the fact that there is hardly any considerable cranial material published from the territory the Roman Empire, and the majority of the available series also represent the combined materials of larger chronological and regional units.Even from among series to be found in literature, and which presented measurement data necessary for comparative examinations, I was compelled to omit, for the sake of ensuring the accuracy of calculations, series comprising less than seven Bkulls. Since, theoretically, there might be taken into account the presence of surviving autochthonous local populations (Celtic, IIlyrian), and some eventual barbarians (Sarmathians ), it would have been advisable to analyse, besides the series from the Roman Period, also materials of this character. However, with regard to the above points of wiew, I could draw but one
