Dr. T. Tóth szerk.: Studia historico-anthropologica (Anthropologia Hungarica 18. Budapest, 1983)

apertúra piriformis. The anthropin form and fossa praenasalis occur with the same frequency. Spina nasalis anterior is broken off in many cases, those which can be seen are mostly medially developed. When studying fossa canina, 1 have found categories flat, medium deep and deep in the same ratio (22.7%). Alveolar prognathy is mostly moderate. Abrasion of teeth is not very much marked, only 17.6% present some more worn masticatory surfaces. Female skulls' circumferences in norma verticalis are pentagonoid in the majority of cases. Glabella and arcus superciliaris are weakly developed, mostly belong to degree 1. Protuberantia occipitalis externa is flat, processus mastoideus is small. Sulcus praenasalis can be seen on the lower edge of apertúra piriformis at 61. 5%, in a high percentage similar to that of the males. Spina nasalis anterior has broken off in almost every case. Fossa canina is most frequently filled up and shallow, but there is a group with very deep fossa canina against it, too. Alveolar prognathy is more expressed than that of the males. At 7 6% of females there is no abrasion or it has just begun (Table 4). On the average stature of males is small medium according to the method of MANOUVRIER and it is medium calculated by BREITINGER's method (Table 3). Stature of females on the average is small medium by the process of MAN OUVRIER and large medium by that of BACH (Table 3). Individual measurements of males are summarized in Table 5, those of females in Table 6. ANATOMICAL VARIATIONS AND ABNORMALITIES I recorded the presence of 1 characteristics in our series. 3 of these can be found on the postcranial part of the skeleton, the others on the skull. The fragmentary, unmeasurable material was also studied. The percentage of the total number of cases was calculated on the basis of the cemetery's total number of graves (127). I have already conditionally indicated the problem in my previous paper (FERENCZ 1981) that arose due to the lack of wearing anomalies of bones. My results are summarized in Table 7. Sutura metopica appeai-s on 10 skulls (4 males, 6 females), this is 7.9% of the population, a higher number than the 5.7% calculated by WENGER (1974) for the Avar Period series of Hungary. On the other hand, 1 also experienced that it is more frequent with females than with males. Os apicis is perceptible in 12 cases (6 males, 2 females, 1 Juvenis and 2 Infans I and 1 lnfans 11, these. 3 Infans age ones not mentioned in the Table). An interesting feature is the tripartite os apicis of the Infans II. The occurrence frequency of this variation is 9.4% in our cemetery, it is very high when contrasted with the 1.4% of WENGER (1974). Ossa Wormiana cases were grouped by sutures. It can be found most often in the sutura lambdoidea, in 41 individuals (19 men, 17 women, 3 Juvenis, 1 Infans II, 1 Infans I), 32.3% in case of this cemetery. It can be observed in almost equal proportions at the incisura parietalis (6. 3%) and in the sutura sagittalis (5. 5%). It occurs in 1 Juvenis in the sutura coronalis. The division between sexes is almost equal. The ratio of ossa Wormiana to be found in all sutures is very high, 43.3%, as compared to the average of the Avar Period in Hungary, which is 14.3%. As the Worm type bone occurs in more than one suture on several skulls, less individuals are concerned by this problem than the above ratio would suggest. Os epiptericum can be found on the skulls of 5 males and 2 females altogether in 5. 5%. The frequency of this variation is also above average. Os bregmaticum can be seen on the skull of 1 single male representing 0.8% of the population, which strongly reminds of the average of WENGER (1974), which was 0.5%. Bathrocephaly can be registrated in 4 cases (2 males, 2 females): 3. 1%. Torus pala- tinus sagittalis is to be found on the skulls of 2 males and 1 female, 2.4% of the population. It is usually of a moderate type. Perforatio fossae olecrani humeri can be recognized on 15 individuals (6 males, 8 females, 1 Juvenis), representing 11.8% of the population. Sacrum bifidum can be seen on J 7 male, 3 female and 1 Juvenis individuals (16. 5%). Spondylosis appears in 14.2%. It can be seen on the vertebrae of 17 males and 1 female. As this abnormality can be recognized in 41. 5% of all males (mainly in mature age), we may presume, that way of life put a burden on males' spinal colums to a greater extent, than on females'ones.The left upper medial incisivus of the female skull of Grave No. 119 is shovel shaped in moderate form. Caries occurred in many cases. On the male skulls of Grave Nos. 20 and 25 can be seen fistulae. As a summary it can be stated that anatomical variations and abnormalities occur in a higher than usual ratio within the Avar Period series of Solymár, being more frequent in males than in females.