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ca (Figs 13-16) and the females to the female groups of Helemba, Szabolcs-Petőfi utca and Esztergom-Vasútállomás (Figs 17-20). PFC (90.84) and IC (-4.46) values of the Visegrád series (males and females together) present the most marked similarity to Helemba, Orosháza-Rákóczitelep and to the average of Europoids (Fig. 21). The comparison of the results of taxonomic examinations are as follows: As it is known (LOTTERHOF 1975), two different groups can be separated on the basis of type differences among the cemeteries of Transdanubian series. One of them comprises the environs of Veszprém and Székesfehérvár. The Europo-brachycranial elements - which are considered as the Conquering Hungarians and their descendants - are dominant in the cemeteries of Veszprém (AC SÁDI&NEMESKÉRI 1957). The anthropological material of Visegrád can,by the type and importance of the taxa present, also be included in this group as well as the series of Esztergom. It is obvious from the comparison of secondary taxonomic characteristics that our cemetery bears the largest assemblance to the cemetery of Esztergom-Vasútállomás - geographically located in its very close proximity - according to the sequence and significance of the types present. In the Esztergom population the majority of the crania belongs to the Brachycranial groups (41. 7%). The Mediterranean group occures less frequently (25.0%). The fewest are the skulls of the Cromagnoid and Nordoid groups (16. 7%). RESULTS OF THE BLOOD GROUP TEST Blood group test could be carried out by absorption-elution methods. However positive ABO blood group test was possibly only in 103 cases (51. 5%). It can be stated that blood group A occurred with the greatest frequency (24%). B and AB groups presented a very low rate. Only 6. 5% of all individuals belonged to group B and 3.0% to group AB (Table 12). Though this study is not intended to be one discussing problems it is appropriate to remark here that the absorption method produces distortion by LENGYEL's opinion (1975b). This method classifies more individuals to groups 0 and AB and less to group A than in reality there are. As a result of it the absorption method results in distortion when calculating gene frequencies too (LENGYEL 1975b). All these presumptions are very difficult to prove or to unprove for in our cemetery only a very limited number of AB and B individuals were available. As far as our data can be compared at all to LENGYEL's data (1975a), because of the difference of the methods used to determine blood groups, we may state that the series of Visegrád presents similarity to the samples of Kál and Oroszvár concerning A character (Table 13). However we must not leave out of consideration the fact that B allele is present only in a very limited number of cases within the sample of Visegrád. Supposing the method of determination did not disfigure or in other words it was not possible to indicate individual characters in similar (or approximately similar) rates in the skeletal samples then these results are informative anyway - if not in absolute numbers than at least in their percentages. Here we must mention our doubts because it is possible that "missing" individuals with B blood group are to be found among individuals with undetermined (undeterminable) blood groups. REFERENCES ACSÁDI, Gy. & NEMESKÉRI, J. (1957): Contributions a la reconstruction de la population de Veszprém. X

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