Dr. T. Tóth szerk.: Historico-anthropological studies (Anthropologia Hungarica 9/1-2. Budapest, 1970)
Type analysis. By the primary taxonomic features, the individuals of the family cemetery are Europoids. Although no analysis of the facial profile could be made owing to the fragmentary and incomplete facial bones, I found no data characteristic of the Mongoloidé morphological features. As to the secondary characteristics, the material is rather mixed. In the majority of cases, long but medium wide crania prevail, and they are mostly dolichocranial . Bathrocrany is also characteristic of the skulls. The eyes are hypsiconch, the stature vary from small medium to high. In any case,the presence of northern and CroMagnoid B elements in the skeletal material of the family cemetery is a safe assumption. Incidentally, the comparative gracility of the entire osteological material is also observable. Anatomical variations, pathological deformations. There are 8 ossa wormiana in the sutura lambdoidea of the individual in Grave 2. On the skulls found in Graves 7 and 10, a transverse depression occurs above the sutura coronalis at the level of the porion-porion; in my opinion it cannot unequivocally brought in connection with artificial deformations. A medium intense exostosis is discernible on the right and left femora of Grave 9. Evaluation of the skeletal bones. Since also the skeletal bones are fragmentary, the determination of stature by the long bones is based on a single datum in two of the cases, on two data in three cases, and on three data in one case. All other measurement data could be taken only incompletely. The index of femoral platymery could be calculated in four skeletons. Sexual dimorphism is rather expressed there ,insofar as the femur of Grave 2 is platymerous (79.8), that of Grave 4 eurymerous (89.4), that of Grave 10 platymerous (72.9). On the other hand, the male individual of Grave 9 had a very weak musculature, being platymerous with the value 81.8. The humeral and tibial indices could not be established owing to the incomplete data. On the possibility of family relationships. Though, according to archeologist P. TOMKA, the findings originate from a family cemetery, the anthropological proof of relationship connections is highly doubtful.Still, some morphological characteristics reveal certain similarities .The skeleton of Grave 9 may, for example, be considered the remains of the "head of the family", since some features of the mature individual appear on the skeletons of the younger generation, e.g. the narrow and medium wide crania as well as bathrocrany. The mature female of Grave 7 might have been the „wife" of the male buried in Grave 9; some of her characteristic features reappear on their offspring : the hypsiconch eyes and the flat and wide nasal root. According to also the cemetery map, Graves 7 and 9 were lying alongside one another. (Oral communication of the excavating archeologist.) In the opinion of also the physician conducting the biochemical investigation, the mature individuals may have been the parents and the others their direct descendants. »
