Dr. T. Tóth szerk.: Paleoanthropological studies (Anthropologia Hungarica 8/1-2. Budapest, 1968)

Sweden, GEIWALL (i960) reports that there was to he found a peculiar order of burial in the cemetery, as the majority of the males have been interred on the southern side of the church while the females on its northern side. There is no known analogy for this burial usage in Hungary. The possibility of this stats of affairs with respect to our cemetery arose solely in connection with this disproportionate distribution of the skeletal remains excavated at Sopronbánfalva. General anthropological analysis The metric data of 12 males and 3 females, found in the exposed material of the graves at Sopronbánfalva, are suitable for a detailed morphological and typological analysis. In the course of analysis, I applied R.MARTIN's (1928) method for the evaluation of the indices, E. HTJG's (1940) categories for that of the absolute measurements, and R.MARTIN'S (1928) process for the assessment of the long bones. The height of the mandibular ramus was measured according to Th. MOLLISON's (1938) method, while stature was determined following .N. WOLANSKI's (1953) nomogram. In the biométrie treatment, I calculated means, intervals, standard deviations according to Students method, as well as applying HOWELLS's „

sigma ratio" method. The general characterization of the male series, on the basis of the mean values and with due attention to the morphological characteristics, is as follows. The skulls are medium long and medium wide (mesocranial), medium high. As to shape, they very mostly between the ovoid and pentagonoid forms. The forehead is weakly slanting backward, medium wide. The glabellar area is moderately developed (Broca I, II). The zygomatic arch is narrow, the upper face low (chamaecranial

). The facial profile is mesognathous

, the angle of the alveolare prognathous. The nasal cavity Is medium wide, the apertúra piriformis medium high, its margin of a sulcus and fossa praenasalis type. The bony nasal ridge is narrow-rooted, partly straight partly slightly convex. The orbita are oblong and rather high. The foBsa canina is medium deep. The maxilla is long, medium wide, the palate also long but wide. The os alveolare is generally U-shaped (Tables 3 and 10). The measurements of stature are also medium. In general, the entire male series is characterized by medium values, hence the Indices are also similar, with the exception of the short palatal Index (brachystaphyline) (Table 5). This characterization shows, however, a very generalized picture of the examined male series excavated at Sopronbánfalva. I submit no characterization of the female series, merely the respective data (Table 5), thus no discussion of the sexual dimorphism can be made. It should be noted, however, that similarly to the female skulls also the marority of the male ones are gracile. Anatomical variations occurred in rather small numbers in the material of the examined population at Sopronbánfalva. No sutura metopica, so characteristic of the skulls of series originating from the Avar Epoch,was found on a single skull, and merely a partial metopism could be observed in some cases (in skulls No. 4750, 4753, 4757, 4759, 4760, 4769, 477, 4779, 5762). The ossa wormiana occurred also rarely. There was one bonelet wedged in the lambda area of skull No. 4751; three each on the right and left sides of the sutura lambdoidea of skull No. 4760; and