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

bimaxillar breadth,/ the noae and the palate, and the lower values of the noae and the orbita. All theae refer to the presence of Cro-Magnoid featurea. The female skulls ahow, accordingly, differences not 30 much in aize aa in shape. The different rate of mortality is also characteristic of the two groups. The average age at death (as calculated only for adults) of the members comprising group A is 52 years, whereas that of group B merely 35. These two groups of the females from Majs may have different origins and the organism of those belonging to group B had been perhaps less able to adapt itself to the local conditions. There is a smaller and a larger group of graves separated in the cemetery at Majs. Among the male and female dead of the smaller group of graves, the gracile element of the Mediterranean predominate, and the type elements differing from the Mediterranean or Nordo-Mediterranean are absent. Since the archeological findings originating from the third century occur in this group of graves,they may be considered to have been the earliest settlers at Majs. The non-Mediterranean type elements can be found in the larger group of graves of the cemetery,and their presence can thus be connected with the assumed settling at the beginning of the fourth century. Another series of data should also be treated here. Dr. LENGYEL summarized the results of his chemico-analytical

, serological and histological investigations (a total of 19 investigational data per individual) - on the basis of a numerical value, obtained by weighting with the empirical significance of every given test in a so-called „P" (= personal) index. In Dr. LENGYEL'

s opinion, the P-index may refer, beyond a better survey of the results of laboratory bone examinations, to ethnic connections of populations, or to that between their given individuals, of similar P-index values. Within the population of Majs, Dr. LENGYEL separated three subgroups on the basis of the P-index values. The value-limits of groups 1 and 2 are comparatively nearer to one another, while those of group 3 are rather removed from them. These three subgroups could not be aligned unequivocally with the observed taxonomical groups, but their occurrence in the cemetery showed an indubitable system. The representatives of index group 3 occurred in 58,3 per cent in the smaller and chronologically the older group of graves, whereas the members of index group 1 were found in 91,6 per cent, and those of index group 2 in 72,7 per cent, in the larger and chronologically younger group of graves. XXX On the skeletal remains of the population at Majs, the following pathological deformations could be observed with the naked eye: 1. Fractures, Injuries. Status post fracturam could be discerned in six males (42,8 io)

. These are to be found on the ribs in one case, on the clavicle in one case, and on the skull in four cases. In these latter ones, it is rather striking that the injuries originating from blows but not causing death occurred only on the right side of the skulls: in two cases on the right frontal bone, and in two other cases on the right parietal bone (in one of the latter ones, there was a healed fracture observable also on the right side of the basis of the cranium). As regards the females

,fracture was observable in one case only (7,1 on the ulna). 2. Degenerative and regressive changes. In the males, traces of medium degree spondylosis on the spinal column could be demonstrated in seven cases (50,0 $) in