Dr. T. Tóth szerk.: Historico-anthropological studies (Anthropologia Hungarica 9/1-2. Budapest, 1970)
their connect loua with series from the Sarmatian Pei'iod.And this means that the effect of the earlier populations of the Sarmatian Period must have been considerable in the evolvement of the anthropological picture of the Avar Period and the Árpád tan Age in the Central Danubian Basin. This was pointed out in my analysis of the Avar Period population at Ártánd (ÉRY, 1967), and also by T.TÓTH, in a number of papers submitting the analysis of the osteological materials deriving partly from the Avar Period (TÓTH,1958) partly from the period of the Hungarian Conquest (TÓTH,1958,1965,1966,1968, 1969a, b, c). In regard of the females, none of the examined 40 series, either from the area of the Soviet Union or from the osteological remains from the Central Danubian Basin in the VI-IX centuries, showed similarities to Kál. Of the series from the X-XII centuries, however, Sárbogárd, Kérpuszta, Ptuj , and Kiskunfélegyháza-Alpári ut proved to be similar, but these, too (aside of Sárbogárd from the X century), recede from Kál when the two further measurements beyond the applied ten are also drawn into the examination. The appearing parallels, even if they are not too near, indubitably reveal that the character-complex of the female population at Kál is not foreign in the anthropological picture of the Central Danubian Basin in the X-XII centuries . General conclusions Collating the findings of the taxonomical analysis and the examination of distance, concerning the population at Kál, with the results of other home investigations conducted on the osteological material deriving from the period under discussion, the following statements might be made on the place of the population. On the basis of the characteristic dolichomorphous features, the Kál population of the tenth century fits into the anthropological picture of the - in its majority also dolichomorphous - population of the Central Danubian Basin in the X-XII centuries (LIPTÁK, 1957,1967; ÉRY, 1970). P. LIPTÁK, in his doctoral thesis written in 1967, made the following statements on the taxonomic composition of the three social strata of the Hungarians in the tenth century: The Turanid, Uralian, Pamirian, and other brachycranial elements are the most characteristical one 3 of the leading class of the conquesting Magyars. The middle stratum has no Turanid and Uralian components,but the presence of Mediterranean and Nordic elements, is considerable. And the common people are characterized by the high frequency of Mediterranean and Nordic elements, with a considerable proportion of also Oromagnoid components. With due attention to the above composition, the population at Kál
