Szekessy Vilmos (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 59. (Budapest 1967)
Éry, K.: An anthropological study of the Late Avar Period population of Ártánd
Table 7 : Group Frequency of the Sex-Dimorphism Indices Martin No. 85.0 N 89. 9 % 90. 0 N - 94. 9 7o 95. 0 N - 99. 9 % 100. 0 N - 104.9 7o 1. 7 31.8 14 63. Ç> 1 4. 5 8. 1 4. 5 21 95. 5 9. 1 4. 5 20 90. 9 1 4. 5 17. 8 36. 4 13 59. 1 1 4. 5 40. 9 40. 9 12 54. 5 1 4. 5 45. 15 68. 9 7 31. 8 47. 1 4. 5 17 77. 3 4 18. 2 48. 1 4. 5 14 63. 6 7 31. 8 52. 8 36. 4 14 63. 6 The sexual expression of the males increases with the advance of age. The -sexual mean value of the juveniles is 4-0.47, that of the adult —mature age +0.70, and that of the senile age + 0.80. On the other hand, the feminine character of the females decreases with the advance of age. The value is namely identical in the juvenile and the adult —mature ages, —0.58, which decreases to —0,42 in the senile age. The data of Table 8 are better displayed in Fig. 1, submitting the sexual expression values within three age groups of four cemeteries of different periods. The expression of sexuality increasing with age, as observed in the Ártánd males, is observable as a tendency only in Kérpuszta and Fonyód, while the exact opposite can be seen in Sárbogárd. It is possible, however, that we have to deal here with a distortion of the small number of cases. The decreasing sexual expression, observed in the senile females of Ártánd, against the younger age groups is, however, clearly revealed in all four examined series. The rules and characteristics per age groups of the sexual expression can, however, be adequately evaluated only by further serial analyses. Variability of the male skulls had been analysed by a comparison to the intraracial mean sigmas of VAN BORK-FELTKAMP (1950), and in certain cases, of HOWELLS (1936) and THOMA (1957). For a correct interpretation of the Ártánd values, I have calculated also here the variabilities of a number of Avar Period series (Table 9). The calculations revealed that the smallest metric variation is to be shown on the Ártánd male skulls. Of the 23 examined characteristics, the sigma ratios of 12 features are smaller than the mean. Of these, the horizontal cranial circumference and the basionTable 8 : Mean Values of the Morphological Sex-Expression for Different Series Series Age groups^. Ártánd IX. c. N % Sárbogárd, X. c. (Éry, 1965) N °i iN /o Kérpuszta, IX. c (Éry et al, 1963) N °/ /o Fonyód, XIV-XVI. c. (Nemeskéri, 1963) N o. /o c? 15-22 Ç cT 23 - 59 $ c? 60 - x Ç. 7 +0. 47 7 -0.57 58 +0.70 43 -0.58 8 +0. 80 14 -0.42 7 +0. 29 3 -0.87 24 +0.71 17 -0.55 2 +0.50 9 -0. 49 17 +0.05 18 -0.33 77 +0.28 64 -0.21 14 +0.29 23 -0. 1 7 5 +0.54 4 -0.42 56 +0.79 32 -0.66 3 +0.80 3 -0.57
