Dr. T. Tóth szerk.: Studia historico-anthropologica (Anthropologia Hungarica 17. Budapest, 1981)
During the last three decades the activity of the members of our staff have been influenced by different conceptions which have found their expressions in their papers, too. From the papers listed in appendix it emerges that into the analyses of the finds were drawn paleodemographical and paleopathological observations, too. A significant part of the listed papers is dealing with paleobiologies! reconstructions and with the anthropological problems of ethnogenesis. The main taxonomical connections between neuro- and splanchnocranium, the analysis of the processes brachycephalization and gracilization, the morphological correlations existing between different parts of splanchnocranium have been taken into account by all of the members of our staff. With the increasing number of the papers raised the possibility and the claim to a comparative analysis. According to this aim the members of our staff extended their comparative analysis to recognize the morphogenetic trends over the craniological finds not only from the Central Danubian Basin, but from some subcontinental areas of Eurasia, too. In the first decade of the Anthropological Department both demographical and taxonomical conceptions became effective {NEMESKÉRI, LIPTÁK), whereas later the questions of the diagnostical significancy of some traits and those of the morphological modifications have been analysed. These ideas find their expressions in different proportions in the explanations of the anthropological composition, respectively origin of the historical populations. The candidate and doctoral dissertations of two members from our staff (LIPTÁK 1957,1970; TÓTH 1958, 1977) were founded on the craniological collection of the Anthropological Department. In addition, the material of our collection were the objects of other paleodemographical and demographical (ACSÁDI & NEMESKÉRI 1970) as well as of paleopathological (REGÖLY-MÉREI 1962) and paleoserological monographies (LENGYEL 1972). A number of important informations about the caries (SCHRANZ & HUSZÁR 1962) and abrasion (HUSZÁR 1976) of the dental system of prehistoric populations have been got from the collection of our Department. During the last decades the Anthropological Department has been visited by more than 90 research workers from abroad, some of them have carried out investigations on different craniological series of our collection (H. BRABANT, L. BRACE, E. BREITINGER, V.V. BUNAK, M. CAPPIERI, G.F. DEBETS, D. FEREMBACH, D. FRAYER, M.M. GERASIMOV, V.V. GINSBURG, I.I. GOHMAN, W.W. HOWELLS, M.G. LEVIN, C. MAXIA, S. MOLNAR, H.W. PIA, R.RIQUET, D.G. Rohlin, I. SCHWIDETZKY, T.A. TROFIMOVA, H. ULLRICH, M. WOLPOFF). In the last years wide ranging metric analyses of the postcranial skeletal parts were began in connection with paleosomatological reconstructions included not only an estimation of body height, but that of body weight, too. Looking over the contents of the papers listed in appendix it will be clear that all of the research workers of the Anthropological Department contributed to the obtained results on the field of general paleoanthropology and ethnogenesis of Hungarians as well as to the increasing of the interdisciplinary effectiveness of the Hungarian anthropology. REFERENCES ACSÁDI, Gy. & NEMESKÉRI, J. (1970): History of human life span and mortality. - Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 356 pp. HUSZÁR, Gy. (1976): A fogkopás vizsgálatának újabb módszerei és ezek alapján végzett összehasonlító értékelések eredményei. Doktori értekezés tézisei /Results of comparative investigations of abrasion using new methods. Doct. theses/. - Budapest, 14 pp. LENGYEL, I.A. (1975): Paleoserology. Blood typing with the fluorescent antibody method. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 240 pp. LIPTÁK, P. (1957): Awaren und Magyaren im Donau-Theiss Zwischenstromgebiet. - Acta Archaeol.Acad.Sei. Hung., & 271-312. LIPTÁK, P. (1970): A magyarság ethnogenezisének paleoantropológiája. Doktori értekezés tézisei /Paleoanthropology of the Hungarian Ethnogenesis/, /Doct. theses, bilinguish with Russian/. - Anthropol. Közl., 14: 85-94. NEMESKÉRI, J. (1961): Fifteen years of the Anthropological Department of the Hungarian Natural History Museum (1945-1960). - Ann.Hist.-nat.Mus.Nat.Hung., 53: 625-639. REGÖLY-MÉREI, Gy. (1962): Palaeopathologia II. /Paleopathology II./ - Medicina, Budapest, 228 pp. SCHRANZ, D. & HUSZÁR, G. (1962): Caries findings on prehistoric human dentitions from Hungary. - Z. Morph.Anthrop., 52: 141-154.
