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

rial. The distribution of the frequency-groups is as follows: wide and very wide (chamaerrhinian and hyperchamaerrhinian) are 47 and 6 per cents of the male, and 43 and 29 per cents of the female, skulls. Medium wide (mesorrhinian) are 29 per cent of the males and 14 per cent of the females, while narrow (leptorrhinian) are 18 per cent and 14 per cent, respectively, of the two sexes. To sum up, 46 and 12 per cents of the skulls show a wide and very wide (chamaerrhinian and hyperchamaerrhinian), 25 per cent medium wide (mesorrhinian), ana 17 per cent a narrow (leptorrhinian), nasal character. The palatal index was determinable on 63 per cent of the skulls. The palate of most skulls is short (brachystaphyline). To this group belong 92 per cent of the males and 83 per cent of the females. A medium long (mesostaphyline

) palatal character was observable only in the males (8 per cent), whereas long (leptostaphyline) only in the females (17 per cent). By the combined results, 90 per cent of the examined skulls display a short (brachystaphyline), and 5 per cents each a medium long and long (meso- and leptostaphyline), palatal character. The body height of 83 per cent of the adult material was determinable. It was found that 50 per cent of the males and 40 per cent of the females had a small medium stature. Medium tall were 10 per cent of the males and 40 per cent of the females; high medium 30 and 20 per cents, respectively. Low statures were found only in the males (10 per cent). The calculated main height is accordingly, 163,80 cm for the males, and 153,40 cm for the females. On the basis of the main morphometric data and the mean values of the respective indices, as well as their group frequencies and the subsequent evaluation, it can now be stated that the cranial configuration of the partial population deriving from Kékesd vas medium long (mesocranial), laterally high (hypsicranial), occipitally medium high (metriocranial), the forehead wide (eurymetopic), the total and Ujpper face medium wide (mesoprosopic and mesen, respectively), the orbital medium (mesoconch), the nose wide (chamaerrhinian), the palate short (brachystaphyline), the cranial capacity large (aristencephalic); the brain case was characterized by the occipital convexity, and the stature was small medium. There is a certain differentiation observable between the two 'sexes, appearing mainly in the distribution of certain characteristics of the brain case and the facial skeleton (length-height, orbital, and nasal indices). This differentiation is further discernible also in some morphoscopic characteristics, as for instance in the rate of development of the glabella, the processus mastoideus, and the protuberantia occipitalis externa, in all of which the massive and gracile features can be traced easily. Taxonomic analysis In order to use our research material for further comparison and an eventual ethnogenetical evaluation, a study of the taxonomic composition of the population is also necessary. On the basis of the comparative metrico-morphological analysis of the character-groups

. I was able to distinguish two distinct subgroups. The taxonomic analysis and the grouping, respectively, was made by a combination of cha-