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

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

We are aware, from historical sources, that the Sarmatian empire had been welded together from ethnic groups as different in origin as those of the Avar empire. Unfortunately, we do not have a suitable anthropological material from the Sarmatian Period in the Central Danubian Basin, but the South Russian preliminaries of the period are well known, both archeologically and anthropologically. However, also the Soviet anthropologists are uncertain as to the fate of the South Russian Sarmatian population after the fourth century A.D. There are namely hardly any osteological series known in this area from the IV

—VIII centuries. And owing to the same cause, there are no available areheological and anthropological evidence of a satisfactory amount with respect to the South Russian prehistory of the Avars in Hungary. It may be taken for granted, however, that the Avars had absorbed a great number of Sarmatian elements not only within the Carpathian Basin but also in areas beyond its börders. The fact that traces of Sarmatian elements have been shown in the Artand population of the ninth century A.D., improves in certain aspects the ethnic picture, as hitherto known, of the Central Danubian Basin in the fourth to ninth centuries. The Artand population, whether they had been in some genetic connection with Table 14. : Parameters of the Male and Female Series. Artand. (Ad. •+- Mat. ) Martin No. Males Females Martin No. N Min. :vi. Max. s N Min. M. Max s 1. 14 180 186. 3 197 4. 21 15 168 176. 2 188 5. 40 5. 16 95 103. 3 113 4. 25 20 90 97. 0 102 3. 63 8. 17 132 146. 2 154 6. 11 13 134 143. 2 152 5. 49 9. 34 83 98. 1 105 3. 88 27 88 94. 8 102 3. 79 12. 12 111 115. 6 125 4. 10 14 105 112. 6 122 4. 57 17. 14 121 134. 4 147 8. 05 17 118 130. 1 141 6. 00 23. 10 515 628. 5 537 6. 76 14 491 507. 8 528 11. 53 38. 5 1380 1478. 0 1640 10. 69 7 1240 1387.2 1510 10. 50 40. 15 92 97. 5 102 3. 11 14 83 91. 5 99 5. 11 45. 10 126 137. 8 144 5. 27 11' 124 128. 9 136 3. 76 47. 19 113 120. 1 130 5. 47 13 96 110. 6 121 7. 42 48. 35 64 70. 1 79 3. 78 21 57 64. 8 71 4. 03 51. 29 39 43. 0 47 1. 97 22 38 41. 2 45 1. 83 52. 29 30 33. 3 37 1.71 24 28 33. 0 37 2. 34 54. 35 21 24. 1 29 1. 89 24 22 24. 5 29 1. 56 55. 37 46 52. 1 59 2. 85 26 44 49. 4 53 2. 54 65. 11 115 126. 5 136 5. 87 9 112 117. 7 126 4. 08 66. 11 83 104. 5 121 .1. 17 14 81 92. 9 101 6. 73 68/1. 16 99 107. 3 120 6. 02 13 96 102. 8 107 3. 53 72. 12 81 87. 3 92 2. 67 11 80 86. 3 94 4. 19 8:1 11 73. 5 79. 1 81. 8 2. 06 12 74. !) 81. 8 86. 9 3. 62 17:1 11 66. 7 72. 2 79. 5 3. 40 13 67. 4 74. 2 83. 4 4. 01 17:8 10 83. 2 90. 2 103. 5 5. 31 12 82. 0 91.2 98. 6 4. 60 9:8 16 61.0 67. 6 71.0 2. 45 13 60. 7 66. 7 71. 5 3. 19 45:8 8 88. 1 93. 0 95. 5 2. 39 9 85. 3 89. 6 95. 1 3. 08 47:45 9 80. 1 86. 9 96. 8 4. 94 5 84. 9 88. 6 92. 9 3. 20 48:45 10 46. 0 50. 7 57. 2 3. 83 10 46. 8 51. 4 54. 7 2. 63 52:51 29 69. 6 77. 5 85. 4 4. 54 22 70. 7 79. 6 88. 1 5. 48 54:55 35 37. 3 47. 7 54. 4 4. 54 24 43. 1 49. 9 59. 2 3. 72 68/1:65 11 78. 5 85. 4 99. 2 5. 99 8 82. 1 87. 1 89. 2 2. 90 Stature 42 155. 7 165. 8 173. 0 3. 60 32 144. 8 152. 9 158. 4 3. 64