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

COMPARATIVE TAXONOMICAL ANALYSIS Our cemetery is not a typical Avar Period cemetery according to the frequency sequence of the main secondary race components, as the typical series are characterized by the majority of Brachycrans followed by Nordoids, by Cromagnoids and by Mediterraneans at the end (L1PTÁK & VÁMOS 1 969). Only the early Avar series of Környe (TÓTH 1971) indicate similarity to our series from all the series compared, because in that series Cromagnoids make up the majority and the Mediterraneans are in the second place. From other aspects (namely the presence of Roman-Germanic elements) the series of Környe is also differing from the series of Solymár. The other cemeteries are characterized by Brachycrans and Nordoids constrasting with the Avar Period population of Solymár. Though it is not contained in the group of comparative series, the 8th century Avar Period cemetery of Szebény (TÓTH 1961) also presents a similar anthropological image on the basis of the frequency sequence of taxa which occur in it. Anyway, the females of Solymár which are so close Europo-Mongoloids increase the difference from this cemetery too. PENROSE'S METHOD 2 The "generalized PENROSE-distance" (DpJ - obtained by the joint evaluation of ^measurements - indicates the individual distances of each series taken into comparison from our cemetery (PENROSE 1954) (Table 11). The males of Csákberény (2.43) and Vác-Kavicsbánya (2.66) come closest to the males of Solymár. The male series of Előszállás (4.23) and Váchartyán (4.85) are still relatively close. The males of Tiszavasvár (8. 87) are the farthest from the males of Solymár. The same two cemeteries which are closest to the males of Solymár take this place as compared to the females of Solymár, with the difference that the distance of Vác-Kavicsbánya is very small (1.45) while the distance of Csákberény is somewhat larger (3.93). The largest distances are presented by the females of Üllő I (10.39) and of Tiszavasvár (10.04). On the basis of this method the male and female series of Solymár show difference and similarity almost to the same series. TOPOGRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF ABSOLUTE MEASUREMENTS I analysed the interrelations of three absolute measurements (MARTIN 8, 45, 48) and three indices (8: 1, 52: 51, 54: 55) drawing in 13 comparative series (Figs. 1-10). The males present the most marked resemblance to the male series of Váchartyán, Vác-Kavicsbánya and Előszállás-Bajcsihegy. As far as the relation of the width of the zygomatic arc and the height of the upper face is concerned the males of Környe are still relatively close. The male populations of the cemeteries Budapest-Népstadion and Tiszavasvár show the least similarity. The females of Solymár indicate similarity to the female series of Budapest-környéke and Csepel-szabadkikötő - which are rather close geographically to Solymár. The females of Vác-Kavicsbánya are also relatively similar, but to a lesser extent than the males are. The female series of Tiszavasvár and Budapest-Népstadion bear the least resemblance to the females of Solymár, just as in the case of males. THE SPECIAL INDICES OF ALEXEYEVA 11 Avar Period cemeteries were taken under examination (Table 12). The males of Solymár present the strongest similarity to the males of Környe and Szekszárd-Palánkpuszta on the basis of the correlation of skull height-breadth-length and of the upper face-skull height. The male population of Vác-Kavicsbánya is less similar. The lowest degree of similarity can be found with series of Alattyán-Tulát and Budapest-környéke (Fig. 11). As far as the females are concerned, none of the cemeteries presents a large