Dr. T. Tóth szerk.: Studia historico-anthropologica (Anthropologia Hungarica 17. Budapest, 1981)

and individuals within those series which were elaborated by authors utilizing, these methods and categories doesn't lead us to false results (Tables 4 and 5). ANATOMICAL VARIATIONS AND ABNORMALITIES We recorded the presence of 13 characteristics. We studied the fragmentical immeasurable material as well. We calculated the percentage of total number of cases of each individual characteristic on the basis of the cemetery's total number of graves (401), though quite frequently the bone conditionally carrying a given characteristic is absent and so the lack or existence of the anomaly cannot be verified. The outcomes of our studies are summarized in Table 7. The given percent values are valid for the individual characteristics' number of occurence. Sutura metopica is perceptible on 19 skulls (6 maleB, 12 females, 1 Juvenis), this is 4.7% of the population. This rate is closely resembling that of WENGER's (1974) 5.7% average calculated for series of the Avar period in Hungary. Os apicis occurs all in all on 16 skulls (4 males, 10 females, 2 Juvenis), this is 4.0% of the population. This is higher then the average of Avar period series in Hungary (WENGER 1974). In our case the frequency of occurence is greater at the females as contrasted with WENGER' s experiences. When examining ossa wormiana we grouped the bones occuring within these by sutures. We can find it most often in the lambdoid BUture, at 12.7% of the population. TMB is followed by the occurence of it in the arrow suture (1.7%), at the incisura parietalis (1.0%) and at last in the crown suture (0.7%). We may state that it is more frequent at males than at females in our cemetery. The rate of ossa wormiana - occuring in all sutures - is 16.2%, somewhat higher than the average of the Avar age in Hungary, which is 14.3% (WENGER 1974). Os epiptericum could be found on 3 skulls (1 male, 2 Juvenis), that is 0.7% of the population. Our value significantly differs from the one published by WENGER (1974), which is 2.9%. Bathrocephaly occured in 8 cases, in 2.0%. It is perceptible generally in a moderate form. Weakly developed torus palatinus sagittalis could be found on 2 male skulls. This is 0.5% of the population. Os bregmaticum was noticeable on 1 male skull. ThiB is 0.2% of the population, less than the average 0.5% given for Avar period series in Hungary (WENGER 1974). Both third molars are peg-shaped on 1 female skull (grave 188). This is 0.2% of the population. The right upper medial incisivuB of the juvenile aged skull of grave No. 145 is shovel shaped. It is a pity that the skull is fragmentic and incomplete and because of these unsuitable for detailed morpho-taxonomical examination. However, the nasal region' s profiling makes Europid character presumable. A great difference revealed itself in the occurence of this type of dental variation between Europids and Mongolids. DEZSO (1968) has pointed out the racial diagnostical importance of shovel shaped teeth in Hungarian literature. The moderate form of shovel shaped tooth can be observed in very high percentage in the Finnish population to the contrary of the fact that serological and other examinations indicated only a very minimal presence of Mongoloid elements. Futher research activities are necessary for the total disclosure of this problem (KOSKI & HAUTALA 1952). However, it should be noticed, that the evaluation of odonthological characteristics was consideraly refined during the last 20 years. Perforatio fossae olecrani humeri appeared at 27 individuals, that is 6.7% (3 males, 23 females, 1 Juvenis). Processus supracondyloideus can be found on the humerus of 2 individuals, 1 male and 1 female. Sacrum bifidum occured on the rump-bones of 33 individuals (8.2%). Division: 20 males, 11 females, 2 Juvenis. Sacralisatlo was the reason of the synostosis of the last lumbal vertebra and the sacrum of 4 males. This Is 1.0% of the population. On the baBis of the occurence of the examined anathomical variations it can be stated that anomalies are more frequent on female skulls and skeletal bones (91 cases, 50.3%) than on male ones (77 cases, 42.5%) in the Avar period cemetery of Vác-Kavicsbánya.