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Tóth, T.: Some problems in the somatology of Hungarian people

Fig. 2. Combinational poligons if some Hungarian and other groups. — Abbreviations : NE P = north-east Palóc, Tk = Taktaköz, Sz-M = Szamosmellék, CD. v. = Central Danubian variant, K(Kaz.) = Kiptshaks from Kazakhstan, Oss. = southern Ossets (Europoid and Mongoloid ones) from each other. This can be illustrated by the applied combinational polygons, too (Fig. 1). In the same polygons finds the relatively closeness of the investigated groups of Hungarian people its convincing expression, too. The polygons show further evidently that the morphological components of the Central-Danubian variant are mainly connected with those of the groups living in Tisza Basin. In earlier decades it was widely accepted by scientists that the frequency of Mongoloid components was very high especially in "Palóc" groups. Nevertheless the investigations discussed precedingly have given different informations about this problem. The morphoscopic characters summarized on the first value-radius of the combinational polygons used by us clearly demonstrate the complete lack of Mongoloid components in some ethnogeographical groups. It must be admitted that in some individual cases an epicanthus or a strong arch of cheekbones may be present. E.g. among the 388 individuals living in Kunság territory we have found only 2-3 persons with a veil developed epicanthus. As it has been clearly shown by our comprehensive investigations in the forming of the dominant Europoid character-complex of the anthropological composition of the male populations the southern and northern subcontinental elements are nearly equal participated. Acknowledgements Author should like to express his gratitude to Docent DR. JENŐ BARABÁS (Budapest, Eötvös University, Inst, for Ethnography), to DR. JUDITH MORVÁI and DR. ISTVÁN