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to the penultimate place in the order of rank. The same holds for the skull of the Hudjirte male originating from the Hun Period; this, too, is Mongoloidé (TÓTH, 1962). The comparative analysis of the facial profile also clearly reveals the EuropoMongoloide composition of the skull from the Hun Periode, Budapest, because the least similar individuals display wholly Europoide and Mongoloidé characters respectively. Summary With regard to the taxonomical evaluation of the Asian Hun ethnicum, the anthropological features of the Huns are, according to GINSBTTRG, 1951 (according to LTPTÁK, 1957), well known in essentials. The findings of the Hun Period contain primarily Paleosibirian, Central Asian, and Far East elements. At the time of the Hun Conquest, they had also been completed by Europoide racial components (LiPTÁK, 1957). On the basis of the findings from the Minusinsk Basin and the Naïmaa tolgoi, it can be stated that the Huns had mixed with Europoide elements already before our era. Accordingly, the Huns residing in Hungary in the fifth century are EuropoMongoloids. The morphological description and facial profile study of the Hun Period male from Budapest also attest its Europo-Mongoloide character. In Europe, or at least in Central Europe, there occurred until the fifth century no ethnic groups of a Mongoloidé character, save probably the random appearance of individuals of similar features. On this basis, and despite the singleness of the finding, it might be assumed that the Hun Period skull from Budapest had belonged to a Hun male (or at least to a Europoide already interbred with Huns). The question whether the skull under discussion had been that of a Hun individual surviving in the area of the Central Danubian Basin (Sadagar) cannot be established on the basis of the available anthropological data. References: AneKceee, B. IT.: MaTepnajibi no najieoaHTponoaorira HacejieHMa MMHVCHHCKOH KOTJIOBMHbl BpeMeHH TaillTblKCKOM KVJIbTypbl (Kp. coo6m. MHCT. 3THorp. AH CCCP., 20, 1954, CTp. 52 — 58). — Anenceee, B. IJ. — ffe6eif, r. 0.: KpamioMeTpHfl. MeTOflHKa aHTponojioniHCCKHX HCCJießoBaHHH (H3fl. Hayxa, MocKBa, 1964, CTp. 112—127). — ALFÖLDY, G.: Ásatási jelentés a Budapesti Történeti Múzeum leletmentései és ásatásai 1958. évben (Bud. Rég. 19, 1959, p. 257). — ffeőeif, r. 0.: najieoaHTpononorHH CCCP (TpyjtH MHCT. 3THorp., 4, 1948, CTp. 56 — 210). — FETTICH, N. : A hunok régészeti emlékei (in Attila és hunjai, ed. NÉMETH, GY., Budapest, 1940, p. 227 — 264). — FERENCZY, E. : A magyar föld népeinek története a honfoglalásig (Budapest, 1958, p. 90—113). — LIPTÁK, P.: New Hungarian Skeletal Remains of the X. Century from the Danube —Tisza Plain (Ann. Hist.-nat. Mus. Nat. Hung., 3, 1953a, p. 277 — 287). — LIPTÁK, P.: L'analyse typologique de la population de Kérpuszta au Moyen Age (in NEMESKÉRI, J., LIPTÁK, P. & SZŐKE, B.: Le cimetière du XI

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