Dr. T. Tóth szerk.: Paleoanthropological studies (Anthropologia Hungarica 8/1-2. Budapest, 1968)
the findings of 5 graves became unidentifiable, so that my research material comprises now the skeletal remains of merely 41 graves. The source-value, from an anthropological point of view, of the material is slight. No more than 49 # of the 41 graves consists of merely skeletal bones, 17 96 only of skulls, and it is but 34 # which yielded both- skulls and skeletal bones (cf. Table l) . Since the excavating archeologist died In the war, and as he failed to submit detailed records and/or the descriptions of the graves to the Archives,I could but identify the anthropological material only on the basis of the laconic data of the Inventory. The inventoried skeletal material precluded the possibility of an exact determination of origin as to Age (Arpadian or late Medieval), thus I am compelled to discuss the combined bone material of a rather extensive period comprising five centuries. Whenever, therefore, the population of Sopronbánfalva is mentioned in the present paper, it denotes the community ,reconstructed on the basis of the sporadic data originating from the XI-XV centuries, of the cemetery at the site of the chapel in Sopronbánfalva. The aim of this work is, accordingly, a detailed anthropological analysis of the available material, and its comparison with other contemporary findings. Determination of age and sex The distribution as to age and sex is given in Table 2. Determinations were made according to the principles of the classic method, with due attention to all morphological characters. The respective determinations were also corroborated by dr. I. LENGYEL* s biochemical examinations. The determinations, made by the two different kinds of methods, completely coincide as to sex, but there are some deviations, in positive and negative directions, with regard to determinations of age. These deviations are, of course, wholly understandable, since it is well-known that chemical determinations do not completely agree with biological ones owing to tne fact that also other influencing factors (diseases, morbid deformations etc.) than changes due to age affect the bones. In our investigations, the results of the chemical and biological examinations coincided in 12 cases, whereas the biochemical testing showed one or two decades less in age in 6 cases, and two decades more in 1 case (this latter for skull No. 476O). I accepted the biological determinations of age. In fourteen cases, I accepted only the biochemical determination, since they were represented merely by skeletal bones. In five other cases, however, only a biological determination of age was possible, since they were only skulls. Biochemical determination happens namely on the basis of spongy bones. As is to be seen from Table 2, the majority of our material are males, that is, 29 of 41 individuals. Four are infans I and II, and juvenile, and merely 8 are females. The problem of the great number of male skeletons immediately arises. In his monograph on the cemetery excavated around the church of the XIII-XIY c. in 1 I am indebted to Dr. I. LENGYEL, physician, for the cession of the data of his biochemical investigations.
