Szekessy Vilmos (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 59. (Budapest 1967)

Éry, K.: An anthropological study of the Late Avar Period population of Ártánd

prosthion length have significantly small variability, but the greatest cranial length and the cranial index are also near the limit of significance. Significantly large sigma ratios are displayed only by the basion-bregma height and the bigonial breadth (Table 10). This low variability in the males can be observed in the group frequency of the measurements, indices, and morphological characters, and not only in the males but Fig. 1, Sexual expression values within three age groups of four cemeteries also in the females. The modal groups become clearly separated, and thus the series is also well characterizable (cf. ÉRY, 1967, Table 5). The Ártánd males can shortly be characterized as follows: stature 166 cm, therefore medium bordering on great medium. Skull capacity medium and large. Brain case long, medium wide and mesocranial, index 79. Superiorly byrsosphenoid. Brain case medium high, orthocranial, metriocranial, and metriometopic. Occiput curvooceipital, no lambdoid flattening. Total face and upper face medium high, wide, facial index therefore meso- and euryprosopic and mesen, respectively. Nose mesorrhinian, profile of extremely characteristical bony nose convex, strongly projecting. Orbital mesoconch, subrectangular. Fossa canina deep. The Ártánd females can shortly be characterized as follows: stature 153 cm, therefore medium bordering on small medium. Cranial capacity large. Brain case long, medium wide and brachycranial, index 82. Superiorly byrsosphenoid and ovoide. Brain case medium high, ortho- and hypsicranial respectively, also tapeino-metriocranial and stenometopic. Occiput curvooceipital, lambdoid flattening only occasionally observable. Total face and upper face medium high, wide, facial index mesoleptoprosopic and mesen. Nose mesorrhinian, bony nose straight or concavo-convex. Orbital mesoconch, subrectangular. Fossa canina medium deep. As is to be seen, the main features of the males and the females represent identical characteristics. The majority of the differences can be reduced to sexual dimorphism, but some of the characters can be interpreted as taxonomical differences. Such are, e.g., the ovoid shape of the skull, the convexity of the bony nose, and the