Dr. T. Tóth szerk.: Paleoanthropological studies (Anthropologia Hungarica 8/1-2. Budapest, 1968)
the mean sigma is worked out only for males. In order, however, to assess the relative degree of their S. D. by some means, I have compared them with the female standard deviations of the Swedish Westerhus population from the Middle Ages (Table 5). I have selected this series because, according to GEJVAL.L (i960), it is comparatively homogeneous and because the standard deviations of the male skulls of this series fall around the mean sigma. It could be established from the comparison that the standard deviation of 14 measurements of the 21 cranial ones of the females is smaller at Majs, totalling 66,6 per cent of the cases. In some cases, as for instance in the basi-nasal length, the horizontal circumference and, first of all, the height of the upper face, the values of Majs seem to show especially small standard deviations. Hence the female series of Majs exhibits a considerably more homogeneous and less mixed composition than the male one. XXX The distribution of the examined morphological features is given in Table 6, and that of the measurements and indices, according to classes, in Table 12. A detailed analysis of the morphological features is not possible ,owing to the small individual number of the series. In general, however, the examined characters of the males exhibit a comparatively slighter variability against the higher standard deviations of their metric values. On the other hand, the morphological characteristics of the females show, as against the homogeneity of their metric values, a certain rate of heterogeneity, and also some differences against the males which could not derive from sexual dimorphism. Such are the morphological peculiarities of the alveolar arc, the orbita, the lower margin of the apertúra piriformis, and the profile of the bony nose. These differences originate from taxonomical differences . Of their further morphological features, sutura metopica occurred only in the males in two cases (16,7 Í°)\ ossa wormiana in 9 cases in the males (69,2 $) and In 8 in the females (80,0 $); a slight degree of the torus palatínus was found in the males in one case (8,3 $), i n "the females in 3 cases (30,0 fo) . The occiput is generally curvooccipital, with a slight degree of planoccipitaly , in 2 cases only, in the males (16,6 $>). XXX As pointed out above, the degree of the sexual dimorphism in the males and femaleB could be inferred from the 22 examined morphological characters; the individual sexual expression values are given in Table 10. The mean values per character call attention, however, to further morphological features of the examined population which will also yield taxonomic information (Table 7)The relatively slight expression of the masculine character is highly characteristic of the male skulls. The mean value of the characters is +0,36. A comparatively more expressed masculinity is observable merely on the facies malaris, in the gonion area, on the processus mastoideus and on the protuberantia occipitalis externa. On the other hand, the hardly protruding glabellar area, the presence of the parietal protuberances, the thin corpus mandibulae, the sharp margo supraorbital! s , the smooth occipital surface, the weakly marked mentum and the
