Kaszab Zoltán (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 65. (Budapest 1973)

Tóth, T.: On the morphological modification of anthropological series in the Central Danubian Basin

eminent part in intertribal metisation and the modification of various anthropological features. The third part of the theme selected for the present paper deals with the morphotopographic place, or observations in this respect, of the series of the Central Danubian Basin. The matter at hand is the analysis of trends estabhshable from the connections of the preauricular facio-cerebral and the facial flatness indices. Our analysis was made on a total of 109 series deriving from Hungarian and foreign findings of three great chronological periods, and without taking into account the constant values of the main taxonomic categories given by DEBETS (1961) (Tables 3-5, Figs. 7-9). Of the osteological material originating from the first chronological period, the closeness of the Tiszafüred and Tápé series merits special attention. Fig. 6. Epochal changes of upper facial height A similar closeness can be observed as regards the Scythian series from Szabadszállás and the summarized Sarmathian group. It is worthy of special note that the Scythian and Sarmathian material originating from the area of Hungary fits between the Neometallic groups from Mingetshaur in the West Caspian belt (Table 3, Fig. 7). It should be noted that our home Scythian and Sarmathian groups reflect the mixture of northern and southern morphological components, but they still stand nearer to the summarized East Mediterranean group. Among the findigs of the Roman Period, Gorsium, Brigetio, and Intercisa indicate similar subcontinental connections, but they are nearer to the southern zone. The summarized group of Celts from Hungary is situated near the southern zone of the Europoids. The other two arrays (Floriana, Vetus-Salina) from the Roman Period are comparatively farther removed from those cited above, connectable with Late Sarmathian immigrations. It is known that repeated infiltrations happened from theDanube — Tisza interfluvial to the area of the Transdanubia (BARKÓCZI 1959, SALAMON & BARKÓCZI 1971). This is well expressed, though indirectly, by the close situation of Vetus-Salina and Floriana to the Lower Volga Sauromatian group (Table 3, Fig. 7). Here, too, the closeness of the Conquering Hungarians and the Lower Volga Sauromathian — Sarmatian groups is equally well expressed. On the other hand, the Middle Volga Bolse-Tarhan and Upper Kama Late Lomovátovo groups stand considerably removed from the osteological material of the Conqering Hungarians (Table 3, Fig. 7). It is worthy of note that in the same group mosaics the Eastern Slavian group is nearer to the Conquering Hungarians than the Danubian Bulgarians, but not to the same rate as the Sauromatian — Sarmatian series cited above. Concerning the Bulgarians of the Volga region it is not so much the direct biological connections as rather the common ethnogenetic substrate which is to be presumed.