A Debreceni Déri Múzeum Évkönyve 1981 (Debrecen, 1983)

Természettudomány - Szathmáry László: The Skeletal History of the Neolithic in the Carpathian Basin

each other in nearly all the features, may show that the hyridization of the different genetic components was common phenomenon on both territories. The interbreeding of different gene pools gave rise to many variants. This process, according to the genetic specificity of the autochthonous populations, ended in the formation of different morphological appearence east and west of the Danube. In the eastern territories the population of the Early Copper Age Tiszapolgár culture at the latest phase of the Lengyel culture was more similar to the Lengyel population, due to the spreading of exogamy, than the Tisza population (Szathmáry, 1980b). 58