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

Fig. 7. Comparison of some craniological series (III. Mill. BC —X. c. AD) In the second chronological period, the topographical position of the osteological material from the Avar Period is noteworthy in the Central Danubian Basin. It can be estabhshed, first of ah, that the great majority of the series cited is far removed from the Türks of the Altai-Sayan region and Kazahstan, as weh as from the findings from the Hun Period of the Minussinsk Basin. It is rather illustrative that the osteological materials from Üllő I. and Váchartyán are in the topographic nearness of the West Kazahstanian Sarmatians (Table 4, Fig. 8). It is also noteworthy that the Avar Period groups originating from the Tisza Basin and from the Danube —

Tisza interfluvial appear within the value limits of the previously indicated series of the Scythian and Sarmatian Periods in the area of Hungary. In addition, the groups from Jutas and Szob, as well as from Szentes-Kaján and Tiszaderzs are close to the catacomb findings from the West Kaspian Mingetshaur and the Ukrainian Saltovo populations (Table 4, Fig. 8). On the basis of the comparisons made here it may be safely assumed that in the ethnogenetic processes directed towards the Central Danubian Basin in the Neometallic a significant role was played by the various epochal — populational groups descended from the West Caspian and North Luristanian regions.