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period), of Mongoloids (Early Iron Age) (DEBETZ 1961) and of the Conquering Hungarians (DEBETZ 1964, TÓTH 1965, 1969) also were taken under examination. It can be stated, that our cemetery is relatively isolated and different to the series studied. Proximity can be found only to the material of Kékesd and Környe. The values of the Northern and Southern Europoid average populations are also not very much different. The cemeteries of Váchartyán and Üllő I, the Conquering Hungarians and naturally the Europo-Mongoloids and Mongoloids are alien to our series. We could not contain the material of Vác elaborated by GYENIS (1968) in the comparison carried out by the above viewpoints. The small number of cases makes the use of the comparative methods selected by us impossible. However, we carried out the comparison on the basis of measurement- and index-averages published by that author. As a result it can be stated, that males have shorter, higher and wider skulls in the earlier uncovered part of the cemetery. The females show more resemblance with the females of the later part of the cemetery by the indices of the brain-case, but they are also of a wider head type. It can be stated for the series of both sexes, that the population of the part of the cemetery written up by GYENIS is narrower faced and has higher orbits than the population buried in the part of the cemetery examined by me. The comparison of the stature ia not informative because of the utilization of different methodics. Both parts of the cemetery are of Europid character. It was impossible for us to carry out a more refined taxonomical comparison. When comparing the results obtained from the comparative examination of several viewpoints the male group of the Avar population of Vác-Kavicsbánya presents the most marked similarity with the male groups of Környe, Keszthely and Fészerlak-Puszta. The males of Váchartyán are also similar on the basis of the secondary characteristics' topographical analysis. However this is not supported by the taxonomical analysis and evaluation by other methods. We can find the greatest difference at the male series of Madaras-Téglavető and Előszállás-Bajcsihegy. The females of Vác-Kavicsbánya show the greatest similarity to the-female groups of Pókaszepetk, Csákberény and Homokmégy-Halom. The female series of Madaras-Téglavető and Tiszavasvári are the most different. All the cemeteries indicating similarities - except Homokmégy-Halom - can be found in Transdanuhia. Considering the division by time we can see that both early Avar (for example Környe) and late Avar (for example Homokmégy-Halom) period populations are represented among the similar series. When judging our results we must be made cautious by the fact that the quantity of comparable material is little because of the fragmentary character of Vác-Kavicsbánya' s Avar period series. We cannot admit some genetical connections with any certainty even in the cases of the similar series, because the population of the Carpatian-basin in the 7th and 8th centuries was characterized by large scale heterogenity. The bone remains of an Avar period population with Europid character, which settled down have been brought to light by the excavation of our cemetery. REFERENCES ACSÁDI, Gy. (1965): A középkori magyar halandóságra vonatkozó paleodemográfiai kutatások eredményei (Results of research on mortality in Middle Ages Hungary). - Tört. Stat. Évkönyv (1963-64), 3-34. ALEXEYEV A, T.I. (1966): Die Slawen und ihre Nachbarn (Nach anthropologischen Daten). Anthropologie (Praha), 4: 3-37. ALEXEYEV, V.P. & DEBETZ, G.F. (1964): Kraniometria. Metodika anthropologitsheskih isledovaniy. - Izd.Nauka, Moskva. 128 pp. BACH, H. (1965): Zur Berechnung der Körperhöhe aus den langen Gliedmassenknochen weiblicher Skelette. - Anthrop. Anz., 29± 12-21. BÂTAI, E. (1952): A váchartyáni avar temető csontvázleleteinek embertani vizsgálata (Le cimetière avar de Váchartyán). - Ann.Hist. -nat. Mus. Nat.Hung., 2t_ 213-224.
