Dr. T. Tóth szerk.: Studia historico-anthropologica (Anthropologia Hungarica 10. Budapest, 1971)
Although Nové Zamky (= Érsekújvár) lies on the other side of the Danube, this did not mean isolation even at that time. The majority of the skeletons deriving from this large cemetery of the eighth-ninth centuries is also Europoid (Hanakova-Stloukál, 1965). The Mongoloid element is very small. The great majority of the Europoid skulls resembles the socalled Libice-Mikulcice type (a Nordic type adapted to the local conditions, according to the authors cited above). The per cent of average occurrence for the males and females is 42.5, while that of the Mediterranean type is 13.7. The population of the cemetery at Előszállás is also Europoid (Wenger, 1967). From the point of view of the secondary characters, however, the material is rather heterogeneous. In any case, a dolichocranial, leptoprosopic , hypsiconchous, mesorrhinian, Nordic-Mediterranean type is also represented there in 29 per cent. The same paper contains an analysis, based on several characteristics, of numerous Avar Age cemeteries excavated in the Northern Transdanubia.Going by this comparison, the present material shows some connections with only that part of the populations excavated in the cemeteries at Jutas and Csákberény which shows the same element in 36 per cent in the case of Jutas and in 14 per cent in that of Csákberény (Tóth, 1962/a). Accordingly, on the basis of the group studied from the CsornaHosszudomb cemetery, the results imply that the proportion of the gracile Mediterranean type elements in the anthropological composition of the Avar Age population existing in the Transdanubia was varying. If the problem of ethnic relegation were to be examined, then the one had to infer the strong assertion of the elements of the ethnicum, arriving preponderantly from the south, in the presence of the gracile Mediterranean type within the examined part of the population of the Csorna-Hosszudomb cemetery. It is possibly the same gracile Mediterranean group which is so prodigiously represented also in the Avar Age populations of Bágyogszovát and Sopron-Kőhida.
