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Tóth, T.: On the diagnostic significance of morphological characters II. (A methodological study)

Interpretation of results Analysing the morphometric characteristics of the os malare of the male series (252 individuals) listed above, one should first of all pay due attention to the fact that a part of them is of relatively few numbers, hence the rate of variability is difficult to analyse. However, the comparison of the mean values of the osteological groups deriving from various geographical zones were considered more important than the analysis of individual deviations. Accordingly, it was possible to establish that the values of the findings originating from the Bronze and Aeneolithic Ages and from Late Roman Period in the Central Danubian Basin agree in essentials with the data published by Woo (1937), and are characteristical of the Europoids. That is, their mean value is below the index value 20.00. At the same time, the values of the above Central Danubian series essentially correspond with the values of the eastern Pamirian (Saka Period), Caucasian (Hevsur), western Siberian (Hanti), and New Guineán (Astrolabe Bay) series (Table I). It also deserves notice that the Avar Period materials from Hungary also reflect, with the exception of the Kiskőrös-Vágóhíd collection, values below the 20.00 index, together with the Magyar Conquest series. According to ALEXEYEV (1956), the value of the malar arc index varies between 17—21 in the Europoids, and between 21—24 in the Mongoloids. With respect to the Eurasian continent, the morphometric data established heretofore represent highly significant contributions to similar investigations in the future, but it should be pointed out that the individual state of the relief of the os malare must be taken into consideration in the case of the given series. Namely, the perpendicular linear value, influencing to a significant rate the malar arc index, depends on Table I Comparison of malar arc indices ( <?) Ethnic groups Biometrie data N M+m/M/ Aeneolithic Age Central Danubian Basin 5 18. 17 +• 0 62 Tiszafüred (Hungary) Middle Bronze Age 2 20. 71 Azov-Region (Ukraina) Bronze Age 12 16.38 + 0 77 East-Pamir (Tadjikistan) Saka Period 19 IT. 47 + 0 57 Szabadszállás (Hungary) Scythian Period 6 18. 23 + 0 77 South-East T ransdanubia Late Roman Period 6 19.50 + 0. 71 Gorsium (Transdanubia) Late Roman Period 33 18.33 + 0. 40 Mursella (Transdanubia) Late Roman Period 9 18.33 + 1 11 Quadrata (Transdanubia) Late Roman Period 9 19.33 + 0. 54 Savaria (Transdanubia) Late Roman Period 4 16.43 + 2. 08 Scarabantia (T ransdanubia) Late Roman Period 2 15.56 Somogyszil (Hungary) Late Roman Period 3 18. 74 + 0 32 Sahristan II. (Tadjikistan) VII.-DC c. 14 16.47 + 0 65 Budapest-Népstadion Avar Period 4 19.88 + 1. 57 Kiskőrös-Vágóhid (Hungary) Avar Period 4 22.51 + 1. 00 Előszállás (Hungary) Avar Period 11 18. 25 + 0. 53 Keszthely (Hungary) Avar- Period 8 17.87 + 0 77 Környe (Hungary) Avar Period 11 17.36 + 0. 62 Budapest-Wekerle Avar Period 10 17.83 + 0. 53 Üllő, Ilona-ut (Hungary) rx.-x. c. 9 18.33 + 0 8<3 Veszprém-Kálvária (Hungary) X.-XI. c. 15 19. 81 + 0. 66 Hevsuri (Gruzia) XVII. -XVIII. c. 17 16. 80 + 0. 62 Hanti (Middle Ob) xvin. -xrx. c

. 16 18.90 + 0. 66 Astrolabe-Bay (New Guinea) xvm.-xrx. c. 23 16.68 + 0. 53