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
To sum up, 37 per cent of the skulls have a medium (mesorrhinian), 32 per cent narrow (leptorrhinian), 21 per cent wide (chamaerrhinian), and 10 per cent a very wide (hyperchamaerrhinian), nose. The palatal index was determinable in 54 per cent of the skulls. The majority of the palates is short (brachystaphiline). To this group belongs 91 per cent of the males and 100 per cent of the females. The frequency of a long palate (leptostaphyline) was observable in one male skull only (9 percent). No medium (mesostaphyline) palate occurred. On the basis of the combined results, 93 per cent of the skulls have a short (brachystaphyline) and 7 per cent long (leptostaphyline) palates. The body height of 58 per cent of the adult individuals was calculable. It was found that 33 per cent of the males and 67 per cent of the females have a medium stature. Small medium is 25 per cent of the males, 33 per cent of the females. Low, high medium, and high statures were found only in the males (25, 8, and 8 per cents, respectively). The frequency of the stature-groups is therefore as follows: medium 40 per cent, small medium 26 per cent, low 20 per cent, medium high and high 7 per cents, respectively. The calculated main stature is 164 cm for the males, and 153 cm for the females. On the basis of the mean values of the main morphometric data and the respective mean values of the indices, as well as their group-frequencies and the subsequent evaluation, it can now be stated that the cranial configuration of the partial population deriving from the Late Roman Period in the SE Transdanubia is as follows : medium long (mesocranial), in a lateral view medium high (orthocranial), in the occipital view medium high (metriocranial) ; the forehead wide (eurymetopic), the face medium wide to narrow (meso- leptoprosopic), the upper face medium wide (mesen); the orbital also medium (mesoconch), the nose medium wide to narrow (meso-leptorrhinian), the palate short (brachystaphyline); the cranial capacity medium to large (euen — aristencephalic). The b^ain case is characterized by the occipital convexity, the stature is medium. There is a certain differentiation observable between the two sexes, appearing mainly in the distribution of certain characteristics of the brain case and the facial skeleton (length-height breadth-height, facial, orbital, and nasal indices).This differentiation is further discernible also in the rate of development of some morphoscopic characters, e.g., the Glabella, the Processus mastoideus, and the Protuberantia occipitalis externa, in all of which the massive and the gracile character of the features can be traced easily. Taxonomical analysis In order to use our research material for further comparison and an eventual ethnogenetical evaluation, a study of the taxonomical composition of the population, is also necessary. On the basis of the comparative metrico-morphological analysis of the character-group, I was able to distinguish three distinct subgroups. The taxonomical analysis and grouping involved 77 per cent of the adult individuals. The three distinct character-subgroups of the partial population living in the Late Roman Period in the area of the SE Transdanubia are as follows :
