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In the course of the excavation, the bone remains of 33 individuals were found. The breakdown by age and sex is shown in Table 1( 5 ). The salvaged material displays a normal sex distribution i. e. 14 : 15. The very fragmentary and defective condition of the bone material is a result of the disturbance of the graves and the circumstances of their coming to light. The skulls alone have some informative value, while the collected skeletal fragments provide data on the general constitutional characteristics of a few individuals only. See the individual skull measurements and descriptive features of the males and females in Tables 2 and 3. The parameters are shown in Table 4( 6 ). The male skulls are long and low and of medium breadth. They are doliehocranial, chamaecranial, and tapeinocranial. In norma verticalis the skull is ellipsoid or ovoid, the forehead is straight or bent slightly backwards ; the occiput is more or less markedly arched. No data are available with respect to the facial skeletons. The female skull is medium long, narrow and high. It is meso-brachycranial, hypsicranial and acrocranial. In norma verticalis, it is sphaeno-birsoid, ellipsoid and pentagono-rhomboid. The forehead is straight, or bent slightly backwards, the occiput is (5) Agoing was determined according to the Methoden zur Diagnose dos Lebensalters von Skelettfunden by J. NEMESKÉRI, L. HARSÁN YI — GY. ACSÁDI, AnthrAnz, XXIV, 19(50, ЮЗ—115. Sexing the skeletons was done with the method of K. E г y A. Krai ov á n s z к y and J. Nemeskéri according to the Történeti népességek rekonstrukciójának reprezentációja. Anthr.Közl, Vil, 1903, 41—90. (6) The measurements were made according to the Lehrbuch der Anthropologie, 3. Auflage, Stuttgart, 1957, set up by R. MARTIN — K. SALLER. The taxonomical determinations follow the System of P. LIPTÁK:, On the taxonomic method in paleoanthropology (historical anthropology). Acta Biol. Szeged, XI, 1965, 85—94. more or less markedly arched. Flatness in the obelion region is frequent. On the basis of the few female skulls that could be examined, they are narrow and low, the orbit is of medium breadth and chamaeconch; the nose is narrow, low and leptorrhine. The edge of the apertúra piriformis is frequently infantile in form and a torus palatinus could be observed in a few cases. Taxonomically the males have cromagnoid, mediterranoid and nordoid features, while apart from the unequivocal mediterranoid dominance, the females show also pamiroid elements. The series of the Holy Crucifix Church does not allow an extensive comparative investigation, due to its fragmentary condition. However, since five other series of approximately the same age are known from the territory of Székesfehérvár, it could be useful for the history of the town to compare these cemeteries^). The distance test (CR 2 ) has been made according to the Penrose method, consisting of 7 measurements on skull from which the essential facial elements are missing, so that the conclusions are based mostly on the brain-cases( 8 ). The male and female data were worked out according to the Alekseev and Debets process ( 9 ). (7) Móri Street in Székesfehérvár: GY. ACSÁDI —J. NEMESKÉRI, AnnllistNat, LII, 19(50, 481 —495. However, as the authors did not mention any individual measurement data, the whole Series were re-meaSured and these data are used in this paper. — Székesfehérvár— Sóstó: In., AnnllistNat, LI, 1959, 493—564. However, as the measurements of the orbits are incorrect, they were re-meaSured. — Székesfehérvár-BikaSziget, Sárkeresztúri Street and Szárazrét: ID., AnnHistNat, LI, 1959, 493—564. (8) L. S. PENROSE, Distance, Size and Shape. Annals of Eugenics, XVIII, 1954, 337—343. The analysis was made on the basis of the following measurements: maximum cranial length (1), basion-nasion length (5), maximum cranial breadth (8), minimum frontal breadth (9) basion-bregma height (17), orbital breadth (51), orbital height (52). (9) V. P. ALEKSEEV — G. F. DEBETS, Kraniometria. Moskva, 1964. Table J Breakdown of the finds according to age-group and sex Age-group Inf'ansl (0-7) JnfansII (8-14) Juvenis — Adultus (15-39) Adultus — Maturus (23-59) Maturus — Senilis (40 -x) Juvenis — Senilis (15-x) Tola! No of cases Infants Males Females Total 1 4 3 7 10 1 4 5 5 2 7 5 2 7 1 14 15 33 160
