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Fóthi, E. ; Pap, I.: Changes of way of life during the 6-12th centuries in the territory of Hungary
C. The third series of examinations was based on 9 skull measurements (Martin 1, 5, 8, 9, 17, 45, 48, 52, 54). In the cranial examinations the series were characterized by male mean values. Several types of hierarchic cluster analyses were applied for classifying series. Four different types of distance were utilized: Euclidean, Tchebisev (DURAN & ODELL 1974), Pearson (cit. WILMINK & UYTTERSCHAUT 1984) and that of PENROSE (1954). Cluster distances were also established in four different ways: nearest neighbour, furthest neighbour, Ward's methods (JAMBU & LEBEAUX 1983) and dual sequential (CREEL 1968). The data were standardized or transformed by C-transformation (cit. WILMINK & UYTTERSCHAUT 1984). For establishing joining links among the population groups we accepted only those results which kept on occurring in the various dendrograms as a tendency. i i i i m r—ii —i —i — 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Fig. 2. Dental pathological alterations through time RESULTS A. The early Avar period population of Tiszavasvári had the most favourable dental conditions from all three viewpoints considered (caries, intra vitam tooth loss and abscessing). The odontological conditions of those Avar period populations which were certainly leading a settled way of life presented a fluctuating but slowly worsening trend. In brief they had bad teeth and they tended to have more of them as time progressed. In contrast the half-nomadic Conquering Hungarians were lucky in having better dental health (Tables 1, 2, 3, Fig. 2). B. The alterations of postcranial measurements within our time limits could also supply positive evidence to detect the changes of nutrition (LARSEN 1984). Though the small sizes of some of the samples calls for precaution a certain trend can be felt (Table 4). The two *ist settled populations, the new arrivals of early Avars (Tisza vasvár i , 6-7th c.) and Conquering Hungari-
