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racters of 26 skulls, and the results tabulated (Tables XVI, XVIII). Table XVII contains the main characters of the skulls comprising the subgroup, while Table XVIII shows the means of the main measurements and Indices. The two distinct character-groups of the partial population of the Avar Period in the Kékesd area are as follows: I. The Dolicho-Mesocranial-Mesoprosopic Subgroup This" subgroup comprises 14 skulls (9 males and 5 females). The skulls are long to medium long (dolicho-mesocranial ), laterally medium high (orthocranial), occipitally high to medium high (acro-metrocranial ), their forehead wide (eurymetopic), the total and upper face medium wide (mesoprosopic-mesen) , the orbitals medium high to high (meso-hypsiconch) , the nose medium wide to wide (meso-chamaerrhinian); the stature medium (Table I, above and in centre). By the metrico-morphological analysis, the skulls of this subgroups reveal mostly Cromagnoid-A , gracile Mediterranean, and features characteristic of Northern elements. II. The Brachy-Mesocranial , Meso-Euryprosopic Subgroup Eleven skulls (8 male and 3 female) belong here. Contrary to the preceding subgroup, these skulls are mostly (73 per cent) short (brachycranial), laterally high (hypsicranial), occipitally medium high (metriocranial), the forehead medium wide to wide (metrio-eurymetopic ), the total and upper face medium wide to wide (meso-euryprosopic and mesen-euryen, respectively), the orbital medium high (mesoconch),the nose wide to medium wide (chamae-mesorrhinian) ; the stature is medium (Table I: below) . The skulls belonging to this subgroup may be distinguished from the preceding one by the character-complex of brachycrany and meso- and euryprosopy, characteristic of the Cromagnoid-B type, as well as the less projecting and concave nasal ridge. Two skulls, on the other hand (Graves No. 135, 172), display a charactercomplex referring to the Dinaric type (very short skull, a steep and flat occiput, medium wide total and upper face, medium wide to narrow nose, high medium stature). By the comparative metric and morphological analysis of the character-complexes, it can be established that the male and female skeletons of the two taxonomic subgroups discussed above exhibit Europoide features. In no case has a Mongoloidé physiognomy been observed ,though certain Mongoloidé features (among others the frontally situated zygomatics (13), leptoprosopy , weakly convex nasal ridge, leptorrhiny, can be observed on the skull of merely one grave (No. 88). Owing to the rather meagre number of skulls and skeletal bones excavated from the Avar Period cemetery at Kékesd, it were unsafe to draw far-reaching inferences; what can be stated is that the population of the cemetery La characterized by heterogeneity, corroborated also by the subgroups distinguishable on the basis of the taxonomical characters. Comparative analysis The next problem is what place the cemetery at Kékesd takes among the Avar Period cemeteries of the Transdanubia, and what are their interrelationships. The cemetery at Kékesd may be relegated to the third group of the Avar Period cemeteries (5), since the Mongoloidé racial characteristics are almost entirely absent and with the Europoide types predominating in their stead.
