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Tóth, T.: On the morphological modification of anthropological series in the Lithic and Paleometallic [sic] Ages II.
Tien-Shan, and, according to the eastern area of the Europoid Great Race, meridionally from the south-western part of the Tien-Shan to the mouth of the Indus (Fig. 1). Indubitably, gracilization might have occurred, according to the findings deriving from the Late Bronze Age in Estonia, also more to the north of the zone outlined above (Table 1), but the significant chronological and socio-economic retardation (one and a half to a half thousand years) of the ancient populations in the Northern Baltic area, as compared to those in the Mediterranean and Central European zones, should also be taken in account. It should not be forgotten that the diametric values, constituting the preauricular facio-cerebral index, reflect a well discernible variability. Of the extensive material analysed herein, this variability is decidedly expressed in the values of the basion-bregma height (Table 2), in some series originating from the Upper Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Bronze Ages. More exactly, it is the relatively small values of the praeuricular facio-cerebral index which are characteristic of the demonstrated series, while, in numerous cases, the means of the basion-bregma height, a constituting element of this combined index, are "high" or even "very high", according to the categories given by ALEXEYEV — DEBETS (1964), for these very same series. It is possible that in several cases the high values of the basion-bregma distance are also responsible in the evolvement of the combined index. Nevertheless it is more important than the absolute values that the index, summarizing six diameters of the neuro- and splanchnocrania, combines the significantly correlated components. It is known that ROGHIXSKY (1954) made intensive analyses concerning the correlation of the metric Table 2. Basion-Bregma Height by Different Craniologicai Series Age Characteristic Series N Males N Females European, Early Period (RIQUET, 1969) European, Late Period (RIQUET, 1969) 10 8 139.3 139.6 Afalou-Bou-Rhummel (VALLOIS, 1952) Taforalt, Marocco (FEEEMBACH, 1965) Mugem, Portugal (RIQUET, 1967) Teviec+ Hoëdic (RIQUET, 1967) Summarized from different Regions (RIQUET, 1967) 1 1 142.7 7 144.0 2 131.5 8 139.5 7 140.3 10 135.6 3 132.6 4 129.0 9 134.8 Grossbrembach, GDR (ULLRICH, 1969) Bas-Languedoc, Early Period (RIQUET, 1967) Scoglietto, Toscana (PARENTI, 1962) Summarized from Rhein, Early Period (Adlerberg, Singen, etc.) (RIQUET, 1967) Fatyanovo culture (DENISSOVA, 1966) Uneticean, Moravia (RIQUET, 1967) Pitvaros, Hungary (PARKAS, 1970) Tápé, Hungary (FARKAS & LIPTÁK, 1970) Ki 9 3 4 4 8 2 8 143.4 134.1 136.3 146.2 142.5 143.0 138.5 135.2 10 7 2 131.5 3 134.0 12 141.9 3 133.3 8 132.1
