Dr. T. Tóth szerk.: Studia historico-anthropologica (Anthropologia Hungarica 20. Budapest, 1988)
matic breadth. Face is low and medium of an equal proportion. Upper face is mostly medium. Orbita is medium wide and medium high. Nose is medium wide and medium high on an average but there are low (42%), medium (22%) and high (29%) forms. Palate is medium long and narrow. According to the indices the facial skeleton is mesoprosopic, mesen. Orbita is mesoconch (but chamaeconch category is the most frequent among the individuals). Nose is medium on the average but narrow and wide variations are also frequent. Palate is mesostaphyline. The shape of orbita is rounded or subrectangular (in almost equal proportions), lower edge of nasal aperture is anthropine. Every variation of spina nasalis anterior is observed in similar proportion. Fossa canina is medium deep or shallow. Alveolar regio is mostly vertical (Tables 2-4). ANATOMICAL VARIATIONS AND ABNORMALITIES The occurrence of 14 characteristics was recorded. The fragmentary material was also studied. The percentage of each characteristic was calculated on the basis of the cemetery's total number of individuals (218). Sutura metopica occurs on 6 skulls (2. 6%). This rate is lower than the one calculated by WENGER (1974a) for the Avar period series of Hungary (5. 7%). Os apicis is present on Anatomical variations and abnormalities Variations, abnormalities Inf. I. Inf. II. Ju v. Male Female ... . Total Sutura metopica 1 1 1 2 1 6 Os apicis 1 1 1 2 2 7 Os apicis bipartium 1 2 3 Os bregmaticum 1 1 Os incae 1 2 3 Ossa wormiana lambdoidea 3 9 22 12 46 Ossa wormiana coronalis 2 4 2 8 Ossa wormiana sagittalis 2 2 4 Os epiptericum right side 2 2 4 left side 3 1 4 Crista frontale 1 1 Bathrocephalia 2 2 4 Plagiocephalia 1 1 2 Perforatio fossae olecrani humeri 3 3 6 Sacrum bifidum cranial 2 1 3 caudal 2 1 3 total 2 2 Sacralization 2 1 3 Spondylosis 3 1 5 10 individuals (4. 4). Three of them are os apicis bipartium. It is more frequent than the one recorded by WENGER (1. 4%). Ossa wormiana , their presence was classed by sutures. All cases are 58. This is a much hig+ier number than the 14. 3% recorded by WENGER. Ossa wormiana can be observed most often in the sutura lambdoidea (in 46 cases). It appears in
