Dr. T. Tóth szerk.: Historico-anthropological studies (Anthropologia Hungarica 9/1-2. Budapest, 1970)

ÁNTHROPOLOGIA HUNGARICA TOME IX. 1970 No. 1-2. Section Ánthropologipue du Musée d'Histoire Naturelle ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDIES ON A TENTH CENTURY POPULATION AT KÁL, HUNGARY By K. K. ERY General data The cemetery of the population studied was exposed at the outskirts called „Legelő" of the village Kál, Com. Heves, in 1966-67, by J.

SZABÓ and B.

KOVÁCS, of the István Dobó Museum, Eger (SZABÓ, 1967; SZABÓ et KOVÁCS, 1968). The eastern confines of the cemetery, about 60 m long in the N-S, and about 20 m wide in the E-W directions, had been destroyed, parallel with the longitudinal axis, by sand-pit works prior to the excavations. The number of annihilated graves, as estimated by J.

SZABÓ,may have been no more than 25 in all. Besides some Prescythian and Sarmatian graves, the skeletal remains of 68 individuals have been observed, and the bones of 63 individuals collected, in the cemetery originating from the tenth century A.D. By this material, coupled with the destroyed portion, the cemetery may be considered completely excavated. The archeological and anthropological finds are deposited in the collections of the István Dobó Museum, Eger. I am indebted to J.

SZABÓ for all archeological informations facilitating the clarification of problems arisen during the working up of the osteological material.

,and to Dr

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fíL, who had very kindly made available his chemlco-analytical

, serological and histological examinations of the skeletal remains (LENGYEL-NEMESKÉRI, 1963;'LENGYEL, 1964) as well as the results of his calculations. The measurements of the osteo.l ogi eal material were taken according to