Dr. T. Tóth szerk.: Studia historico-anthropologica (Anthropologia Hungarica 11. Budapest, 1972)
history of the settling. Archéologieal observations maintain that there is no archeological material of Gepid origin to attest a Gepid settling between A. D. 456-568 in the area of the originally two Comitat s . The later period is represented on the one part only to Tiszafüred along the Tisza and to the Comitat Bihar on the other,while there is a hiatus from the areas north of this region. This lack of evidence (the existence of a single characteristic Gepid object) may be explained by the insufficiency of archeological investigations in this extensive area, but the available material remains of the Great Migrations and the Avar Period, deriving from the Comitat, allow the inference that it was occipied instead of the Gepid by the Sarmatian basic population, even as late as the seventh century A. D. However, this independence was rather short-lived (A. D. 472), because they put themselves under the protection of Gepid kings. Yet this voluntary accession of the Sarmatians was not equivalent with the disintegration of their ethnic unity. The early Avar alliance of tribes in the North of the Great Plains had thus settled not on the Gepid but on the Sarmatian indigeneous population. The positive traces of this historical fact allow fresh possibilities of investigation not only from the anthropological but also from settling-historical points of view. With due respect of this situation, the present study intends to serve the enlargement of our knowledge on the population of the Northern part of the Great Plains at the time of the Great Migrations. HISTORICAL The "Jósa András" Museum at Nyíregyháza- excavated, between 1959-1961, four Avar Period cemeteries 30 km'west of Nyíregyháza, in the following four sites of the village Tiszavasvár: 1. on the property and in neighbourhood of L* Kabai (Petőfi u.
