Szekessy Vilmos (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 60. (Budapest 1968)
Wenger, S.: Data to the anthropology of a late Roman period population in the SE Transdanubia
Feked Grave No. 1. — Inventory No. 64.1.1. Brain case with fragmentary and incomplete mandible, fragmentary and incomplete skeletal bones. Inf. I. Parietal arc: 122; occipital arc: 100, parietal chord: 82, genial height: 23. Not suitable for metric study. Grave No. 2. — Inventory No. 64.1.2. Fragmentary skull with mandible. Well preserved skeletal bones. Nasal and right orbital areas injured, incomplete. Male (Juv.). Glabella: 0. Occiput convex. Slight praelambdoid flatness. Protuberantia occipitalis externa: 0. Processus mastoideus large, pointed. Fossa canina deep. Lower M 3 teeth emerging. Brachycranial, hypsicranial, metriocranial, eurymetopic, euryprosopic, mesen, mesoconch. Grave No. 3. — Inventory No. 64.1.3. Strongly warped and incomplete calvarium, fragmentary and incomplete mandible and fragmentary skeletal bones. Male (Ad.). Occiput convex, projecting. Protuberantia occipitalis externa: 4. Mandibular teeth cast,, alveolus atrophied. Not suitable for analysis. Grave No. 4. — Inventory No. 64.1.4. Fragmentary skull, incomplete mandible and skeletal bones. Inf. I. Not suitable for analysis. Grave No. 5. — Inventory No. 64.1.5. Burned bony fragments of female and Inf. I. Not suitable for study. Anthropological analysis With due attention to the fact that all seven cemeteries are co-eval and originating from the Late Roman Period, according to the archeologieal inferences, the evaluation of the findings will not be made per cemeteries but in a summarized form. Studying the mean values of the male skulls, it can be established that, besides being long (184.67), they are also narrow (137.40), moderately high (133.17), their capacity large (1455 cm 3 ), their bizygomatic breadth moderately wide (130.26), the total and upper facial heights moderate (118.33 and 71.22, respectively). Similarly to the male skulls, the female ones are also characterized by a imoderate length (177.00), narrowness (132.16), height (129.60), moderate bizygomatic breadth (123.00), and moderate total and upper facial heights (109.50, 66.00). There is a difference with respect to the cranial capacity, that of the females being medium (1273 cm 3 ). If the mean values of the cranial indices are examined, it will be found that the medium long (75.66, 75.50) index-group is characteristical of both the male and the female skulls. With respect to the length-height index, both belong to the medium high group. The breadth-height index is medium high in both sexes (95.58, 96.25), and the transversal-parietal index wide (69.60, 70.84). The facial index of the males is 89.70, that of the females 90.60, hence tha face of the formers is medium wide, that of the latters narrow. The upper face index is identical in both sexes, being medium (53.75, 54.60). The orbital of both males and females is medium (80.78, 83.66). There is a difference as regards the nasal index, that of the males being medium (48.23) but narrow in the females (46.75). As for the palatal index, both sexes are characterized by a short palate (91.63, 96.66). The main measurements and indices of the skulls may, on the basis of the groupfrequency, be evaluated as follows. The cranial length of 81 per cent of the adult individuals had been possible to determine. The skulls are preponderantly long, to wit, 60 per cent of those of the males, and 83 per cent of the females. Moderately long is 40 per cent of the male skulls and 17 per cent of the female ones. Short skulls have not been observed in either one of the sexes. I could measure but the greatest width of the skulls in 81 per cent of the material. According to the results, narrow skulls predominate in both sexes (60 per cent of the males and 67 per cent of the females). Seven per cent of the male skulls and 17 per
