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

ANTHROPOLOGIA HUNGARICA TOME IX. 1970 No. 1-2. Section Ánthropologipue du Musée d'Histoire Naturelle A SHORT ANTHROPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OP THE FAMILY CEMETERY AT SOPRON-PRÉSHÁZTELEP IN THE IX C.A.D. I 3y OLGA L. BOTTYÁN The sporadic family burial was a rather common usage in the second half of the ninth century. A similar, small family cemetery was excavated by P. TOMKA, archeologist

, Sopron, about 3 km east of the cemetery, comprising many hundreds of graces,at Sopronkőhida. According to TOMKA'

s opinion, the family cemetery seems to be rather closely connected, in regard of its archeological objects, with that at Sopronkőhida mentioned above. And by the kind oral communication of archeologist Dr.GY.

TÖRÖK, the special burial usage observed in the Sopronkőhida cemetery was followed also here. The family cemetery consists of merely eight graves, those of 3 males and 5 females; according to age: 2-infans, 1 juvenilis, 1 adultus, 4- maturus

. Prom an anthropological point of view,the source value of the material is slight. The bones are rather fragmentary and incomplete; unfortunately, it was mainly the facial skeleton of the skulls which sustained injuries, so that only 4 of the 8 crania can be analysed,and that too only sketchily. The skeletal bones are also partly fragmentary; however, the stature of 6 out of the 8 individuals may still be evaluated. The findings are deposited in the Museum at Sopron. Sex and age identifications, were made according to the principles of the classical method, with due regard to all morphological characteristics.