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

ANTHROPOLOGIA HUNGARICA TOME IX. 1970 No. 1-2. Section Anthropologipue du Musée d'Histoire Naturelle DATA TO THE ANTHROPOLOGY OP THE EARLY ÁR

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N AGE POPULATION OP THE BALATON AREA (THE ANTHROPOLOGY OP THE XI-XII c. CEMETERY AT ZALAVÁR-KÁPOLNA) By S. Wenge

r Together with AGNES OS.SOÓS, archeologist, the excavation of the cemetery at Zalavár-Kápolna was made in 1951. In view of the fact that AGNES CS.S0ÓS has expounded in detail the circumstances of the excavation in her papers concerning the archeology of the cemetery (8), it were superfluous to submit them also here; I propose therefore to discuss only the results of my investigations conducted on the osteological material of the cemetery. Material and method The material consists of the crania of 49 males, 48 females, 5 juveniles, and 12 infants, and the skeletal remains of 73 individuals. Their distribution as to age and sex is given in Tbale I

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. In taking the metric data, I used MARTIN'S (7) craniological scheme. Applying his method, T measured, subject to the state of preservation, the relevant data of a maximum of 45 brain cases and facial skeletons. Cranial capacity was established by the use of glass beads. Twelve indices have been calculated from the measurements. In the morphological description, I again adhered to MARTIN'

3 se1 I am indebted to Dr. J. NEMESKÉ1U for having made available the sex and age data of the material.