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Wenger, S.: Data to the anthropology of the Avar Period population in Northern Plains, Hungary

Table 2. Some parameters ol the male and lemale series MALES FEMALES .Measurements ana indices K M V N M V 1. 8. Maximum cranial length Maximum cranial 21 181.80 167193 28 174.54 160 -191 breadth 20 147.90 134159 29 143.44 133 -158 17. Basion-bregma height 6 141.66 137147 7 135.52 130 -140 45. Maximum bizygomatic breadth 6 142.33 136146 5 128.80 123 -134 47. Total cranial facial height 15 124.67 115132 7 114.43 109 -119 48. Upper cranial facial height 15 73.46 6881 8 69.0 66 -72 8: 1 Cranial index 20 81.85 7391 24 82.50 72 -95 17: 1 Lenght-height index 6 78.67 7583 7 78.42 74 -81 17: 8 Breadth- height index 6 96.17 88108 6 95.84 93 -99 9: 8 Transverse frontopar. index 19 68.89 6679 23 67.44 61 -77 47:45 Total facial index 5 86.00 8290 4 86.25 84 -90 48:45 Upper facial index 5 53.00 5155 5 54.40 53 -57 52:51 Orbital index 15 82.60 7492 10 83.50 77 -93 54:55 Nasal Index 13 49.46 4458 9 52.23 45 -61 Stature 29 166.76 153177 32 154.15 146 -162 parietal index, 42.1% are eurymetopic, 31.6% metriometopic, and 26.3% stenometopic in character. The facial index groups are distributed as follows : 40% each of the male skulls belong to the euryprosopic and mesoprosopic groups, leptoprosopic are 20%. Concerning the upper face index, the great majority (80%) is mesen, and only 20% lepten. The majority of the orbital index is mesoconch (53.4%), with hypsiconch represented by 33.3% and chamaeconch 13.3%. The nasal index groups show 38.5% each for the leptorrhinous and the chamaerrhinous skulls, while mesorrhinous are only 23%. The stature mean of the males is 166.76 cm, that is, average (Table 2), but the tall average and tall groups reach the greater per cent proportions. According to the calculations, 31.1% are average, 27.6% tall average, 24.2% tall. 10.3% short average, and 6.8% short. By summarizing the above data, it can be established that, on the basis of the main morphometric data, the mean values of the respective indices, the group frequencies and their interpretation, the cranial shape of the male population at Tiszavasvár is medium long, medium broad, while by the cranial index the mean value is near the lower limit of brachycrany; concerning the distribution of the cranial index, brachycrany is again represented in the greatest percentage. The brain case is high, and by the per cent distribution of the length — height index hypsicrany is characteristic ; by the breadth — height index (mean value) metriocrany predominates, and by group frequency, tapeinocrany and acrocrany are dominant. Studying the per cent distribution of the transversal —frontoparietal index eurymetopy, by the mean value metriometopy are the characteristic features. The face is broad high, by the facial index mesoprosopic, the upper face is medium high, mesen. The orbita are mesoconch, the nose mesorrhinous by the mean value, and leptorrhinous to chamaerrhinous, respectively, by the distribution of the index groups. The average stature characterizes the males.