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one each in the same place on skull No. 4762. Skulls No. 4750/b, 1760, and 4779 showed the phenomenon of sutura petrosquamosa mastoidea. Examining the palatum of the skulls, a very slightly developed torus palatínus could he shown on skulls No. 4751, 4762, 4771, 4774, and a torus of somewhat greater degree on the male skull No. 4769. With regard to morbid deformations and injuries, one or two interesting cases were found. The male skull No.

4760 probably refers to blindness, since there is a lxl cm large osseous excrescence on the inner side of the right orbita (according to the expert testimony of Dr. I. LENGYEL). Laterally incrassate and anteriorly entirely absorbed alveoli, due to chewing, are encountered on skull No. 4774 of a senile individual. Hydrocephaly can be established on the male skull No. 4769 (owing to the unuBual dimensions of this skull, I have omitted its measurements from the calculations of the means). Beside hydrocephaly, this individual had also a very small stature. Skull No. 4770 is also abnormal, plagiocephalic, that is, distorted to the left side, but the deformation is not a post mortem occurrence. On skull No. 4757, there is a healed, oval wound, 2x3 cm, on the right side;one of the ribs of the same individual is grown to the accompanying vertebral bone

. Examining the long bones, it can be established that the mature male No. 5762 was strongly gouty; furthermore, its right caput femoris is inordinately large (deformed) (expert opinion of Dr. I. LENGYEL). According to the archeological description, the skeleton of grave No. 5763 was buried in a folded position. This individual was lame, as inferable from the examination of the long bones; the left femur is more strongly developed than the right one, while the left fibula and tibia evince osseous tumor. Type diagnosis (homogeneity - heterogeneity) In investigating cemeteries, one of the most important questions with regard to type diagnosis is the determination of the rate of homogeneity or heterogeneity of the analysed population. First of all, however, there arises the problem of the criteria defining homogeneity. I have examined it from two aspects, namely on the basis of the primary and the secondary taxonomical descriptive characters and the respective metric data. With respect to the primary taxonomic characters of the male series, the examined group of the population at Sopronbánfalva is homogeneous, since there occur only the Europoide racial elements in the material. Though I had no facial profile data available, still, on the basis of the other morphometric examinations, no character referring to Mongoloids could be found in the small series. There could not very well have been, since TÓTH (1958) has shown that the presence of the Mongoloïde element is considerably less significant in the populations of the Great Migrations than was previously supposed. And this component could not have increased during the Árpád Age

. With respect to the secondary taxonomic features in the course of further investigations, the material of the male series might be divided into two subgroups. The first one consists of the components of a Cro-Magnoide B and a Médit erranoide type. To this subgroup belong the skulls No. 4754, 4760, 4762, 4770, 4774, 5762. They are all characterized by a brachy-mesocranial shape and a low but