Budapest Régiségei 23. (1973)

TANULMÁNYOK - Kiszely István: A Fehérvári úti avar kori temető rövid embertani jellemzése 89-98

ISTVÁN KISZELY THE SHORT DESCRIPTIVE THE MAIN ANTHROPOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE AVAR CEMETERY OF BUDAPEST — FEHÉRVÁRI ŰT The short descriptive paper contains the main anthropological characteristics of 34 individuals of the Avar cemetery at Budapest-Fehérvári-út, apt to scientific treatment. The bones lending themselves to anthropological investigation are only a fragment of a larger Avar cemetery. (The excavations were led by the archaeologist Dr. Margit Nagy.) The entire material contained a single neonatus and two infantes I only. The metric data are rather homogeneous. The average cranium index (measurement 8:1 according to Martin) is 81,11. The ratio of teeth with caries is 3,44%. Of the investigated 34 individuals 24 were suitable for type definition. The pure occurrences of the Nordic, Cromagnonidic, Dinarian, Atlanto-Mediterranean and Alpine types are missing from the cemetery, just as the pure Mongolid types. The most types may be enlisted to such a transitional taxonomical unit in which slight Mongolid characters are mixed with Europidic ones. The dominant types are the Turanian and Pamirian, but Tauridic and Uralian ones also occur. Thus we are faced by an ethnic unit the racial genesis of which leads one beyond the Caspian Sea, to Central Asia, which did not live long in the Carpathian Basin, however, unable to mix with the local element in a high degree. Beside these types naturally there appear individuals characteristic of the local population as well in the cemetery. 98