Dr. T. Tóth szerk.: Historico-anthropological studies (Anthropologia Hungarica 9/1-2. Budapest, 1970)
might be regarded as representing type-elements characterizing chiefly the middle stratum even though the presence, if only in a subordinate role, of the Europo-Mongoloid and other brachymorphous type-elements in the population indicate rather the leading class, while the higher Mediterranoid frequency may possibly point to a certain extent towards the type-pattern of the common people. All in all, it seems to be justified to regard the Kál population, on the combined basis of the type-pattern of the entirety of the population, the parallels of the male and female series, and the cranial trephinations observed in the material,as a part of the population arriving from the east at the time of the Hungarian Conquest. Further possibilities of research The inferences concerning the general anthropological picture of the community at Kál in the thenth century, and its place occupied within the population of the period, were shortly stated in the preceding chapters. By the assistance, however, of the cemetery map, some archeological data, as well as serological, chemico-analytical and histological investigations, supplementing them with further anthropological observations, it was also possible to reveal some interesting phenomena in regard of the inner structure of the population at Kál. It is known that in a certain group of our home cemeteries from the tenth century there appears to be a difference in rank or wealth between the right and left wings of the cemetery, and in the observed cases it is always the left, wing which served for the burial place of the richer and distinguished individuals (LÁSZLÓ, 1944),. In cognizance of this fact, I drew, .as an experiment, a perpendicuar line at right angles to, and in the centre of, the longitudinal axis of the cemetery at Kál on the map, the line thus decurrent between Graves 2 and 3, as well as 9 and 30. By this artificial division,the cemetery was separated into two nearly equal parts:into a northern or left,and a southernor right, wing. In the northern wing 31 graves have been excavated,and 33 (or possibly 35) in the southern one. Examining separately the material of the two sections, I found a number of differences, apparent not only anthropologically but also chemico-analytically . However, before discussing the observed differences', I should like o emphasize that the respective phenomena should be interpreted most circuii spectly and with due reservations, partly owing to the about 25 per cent, annihilated state of the cemetery and partly because the significancy of the apparent differences could not be corroborated mathematically in any one of the cases. Which means that the role of chance in the evolvement of
