Dr. T. Tóth szerk.: Etudes d'anthropologie historique concernant le bassin du Danube moyen (Anthropologia Hungarica 7/1-2. Budapest, 1966)
Analysis of the facial profile* In the last decade, increased attention is paid in home literature to the analysis of the morphometric features of the facial skull /TÓTH, 1958, I960, 1962/a, b, 1963, 1964/. On the basis of'three angular and four absolute measurements, as well as two indices, the Europoide and Mongoloidé racial elements oan seourely be shown. Unfortunately, only four females and four males can be analysed from this point of view in our present material. The analysis of the facial skull reveals that, of the four females, one is Europoide, and three Mongoloidé. Nrs. 9022 and 9024 of Rákoshegy are strongly, while Nr. 9025 is dominantly, Mongoloidé. As for the males, three are Europoids /Nr. 6293, Soroksár; Nr. 4865, Rákospalota, and Nr. 9027, Rákoshegy/. The nasomalar and nasal projection angles of skull Nr. 6288 of Rákospalota display Mongoloidé characteristics. In the Table of the individual values /Table V/, the daoryal height /DS/ is rather conspicuous, exhibiting on five skulls the small values characteristioal of the Mongoloids /the smaller the value is,the flatter the nasal root appears/. It is well-known that the Mongoloidé mean is about 8,3 mm /TÓTH, 1958/, and the skull Nr. 9025, with its value 6,3 mm, is considerably below even the mean mentioned above. At the same time, though this value is also rather low on skull Nr. 25 r 9, it is still entirely Europoide, which implies that a single feature is far from being decisive even in facial profile analysis; an answer in accordance with reality is also here given by the combination of components. One should yet examine the values of the height of the nasal ridge /SS/ and the facial angles /ZM and NM angles/, the dacryal and simotic indices, and, as one of the most important, the angle of the nasal projection. The value of the dacryal chord /DC/ on the female skull Nr. 9022 is so high that we are possibly confronted with a pathological case. However, strongly profiled facial skulls are also evident in the Table /Table V; Nr. 255S, female; Nrs. 6293, 4865, and 9027, males/. These are Europoids. Not only the above individual values, but also the arithmetic means of the male and female metric data evince the Mongolide preponderance in the females. The smallest values in the females are displayed by the height of the nasal ridge /SS/, the dacryal height /DS/, the simotic index /SS:S0/, and the nasal projection angle /75/1/, whereas the naso- and zygomaxlllary angles are nearer to the Europoide values. The combined oharacteristics of the Mongoloidé females are the flat face, the shallow fossa canina, the wide and flat nasal root, and the flat nose. The means of the males are in all respects characteristic of Europoids. Concerning the values of Tables VI and VII, references should be made to the observations made with respect to the data of Tables III and IV. The very high variational coeffioient values of Table VII /60,0 mm for the simotic height, and 58,0 mm for the depth of the fossa canina/ are not referable merely to the remarks made in connection with the data of Table III and IV, but relate to the combined data of the Europoide and Mongoloidé individuals of Tables VI and VII, and the excess of these very variational coefficient valueB demonstrate the best that it is the facial profile measurements and indices which are primarily characteristic in a taxonomic evaluation. f Special thanks are due to T. TÓTH for his help in mastering facial measuring techniques. e
