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

The breadth-height index was determinable in 65 per cent of the skulls. Also with respect to this index, there is a difference between the male and the female skulls. While 50 per cent of the male skulls is medium high (metriocranial), 42 per cent high (acrocranial), and 8 per cent low (tapeinocranial), the majority of the female skulls (60 per cent) is high (acrocranial) whereas the occurrence of the medium high (metriocranial) and low (tapeinocranial) characters is equal (20—20 per cent). On the basis of the combined results, the proportion of the medium (metriocranial) and high (acrocranial) skulls is about equal (41 and 47 per cents, respectively) ; the occurrence of the low (tapeinocranial) skulls is the smallest (12 per cent). The frontal-parietal index was determinable in 81 per cent of the material. The skulls show a preponderantly wide forehead (eurymetopic). To this group belongs 60 per cent of the males, and 100 per cent of the females. Medium (metriometopic) is 33 per cent, and narrow (stenometopic) is 7 per cent, of the males. According to the combined results, the frequency of the skulls with a wide forehead (eurymetopic) is 71 per cent, that of the medium ones (metriometopic) 24 per cent, and that of the narrow ones (stenometopic) 5 per cent. The total facial index was calculable for 62 per cent of the skulls. The indexgroups are distributed as follows : 55 per cent of the males has a medium wide face (mesoprosopic) ; 27 and 18 per cents, respectively, show a narrow and very narrow face (lepto- and hyperleptoprosopic). In the female group, the frequency is 20 and 40 per cents, respectively, for the narrow and very narrow (lepto- and hyperleptoprosopic) faces, while a wide face occurs in 40 per cent of the cases (euryprosopic). No medium wide (mesoprosopic) female skull was found. Accordingly, the majority of the examinable skulls is narrow and very narrow (25 and 25, lepto- and hyperleptoprosopic, respectively), 37 per cent medium wide (mesoprosopic), and 12 per cent wide (euryprosopic). The upper face index was determinable in 70 per cent of the skulls. According to my data, the upper face is narrow and very narrow (lepten — hyperlepten) in the majority of cases. To these groups belong 46 and 8 per cents, respectively, of the males, and 40 and 20 per cents, also respectively, of the females. A medium wide upper face (mesen) is shown in 38 per cent of the males, wide (euryen) being only 8 per cent of them. In the females, the medium wide (mesen) and wide (euryen) upper faces appear in equal proportions (20—20 per cents). Consequently, 45 per cent and 11 per cent, respectively, of the skulls are narrow and very narrow (lepten

—hyperlepten), 33 per cent medium (mesen), and 11 per cent wide (euryen). The orbital index was calculable for 81 per cent of the skulls. The frequency of the medium orbital (mesoconch) is 53 per cent in the males, and 33 per cent in the females. High orbitals (hypsiconeh) appear in 27 per cent of the males and 50 per cent of the females, and low (chamaeconch) in 20 per cent and 17 per cent of the males and females, respectively. Accordingly, 48 per cent of the skulls show medium (mesoconch), 33 per cent high (hypsiconeh), and 19 per cent low (chamaeconch), orbitals. The evaluation of the nasal index was possible on 73 per cent of the skulls. The distribution of the frequency-groups is as follows: medium wide (mesorrhinian) is 43 per cent of the males, narrow (leptorrhinian) 29 per cent, wide and very wide (chamaerrhinian and hyperchamaerrhinian) 21 and 7 per cents, respectively. The female skulls is leptorrhinian (40 per cent) ; whereas the frequency of the medium (mesorrhinian), wide (chamaerrhinan) and very wide (hyperchamaerrhinan), noses appears in equal rates (20 per cent each).