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

The anthropological material of certain Avar Period cemeteries in the Transdanubia - for instance the one in Mosonszent

jános of a Mongoloidé racial character, that of Öskü of a Mongoloidé character, further the skeletons found in Comitat Fejér: those from Előszállás-Öreghegy of a Mongoloidé and Europoide, and the ones from Cece, of chiefly Mongoloidé, characters - could, owing to their ethnic composition, not subserve as a comparative basis with regard to the cemetery at Kékesd. The findings at Győr are in a similar position, wherein only a single skull showed some Dinaroide features further obscured by the preponderance of the Mongoloidé characters. Consequently, comparisons could be drawn only with the heretofore published anthropological materials and the mean values of their main measurements and indices, of a Europoide character, of the Avar Period cemeteries excavated at Jutas, Szebény, Csákverény, and Előszállás-Bajcsihegy. The comparative data are submitted in Tables XIX, XX, XXI and XXII. By comparing the mean values of the main measurements of the male skulls deriving from Kékesd with those of the Transdanubian findings mentioned above, it can be stated that they differ, with regard to the length of the skull, from the Jutas and Előszállás ones, while with respect to the breadth of the skulls, from the Jutas as well as the Szebény and Csákberény crania. Namely the male skulls from Kékesd are moderately long and moderately wide, whereas those from Jutas are long and narrow; the Szebény and Csákberény skulls are,though of a moderate length similarly to the Kékesd ones, narrow, while the Előszállás skulls, though as moderately wide as the Kékesd ones, are long. Concerning the height of the skulls, the values are identical with the Kékesd ones in all male series, that is, they are moderately high. The bizygomatic arch of the Kékesd and the other Transdanubian findings, except for the Szebény skulls,is moderately broad. (The latter ones have a wide arch on the average.) As for the total and upper facial lengths, the values of the Csákberény and Előszállás skulls agree with those of the Kékesd ones, that is, the total and upper face of the male skulls of all three cemeteries is moderately high. On the other hand, the Jutas skulls have a low, the Szebény skulls a high to low, total and upper face. By comparing the main indices and the stature data, it can be established that whereas the Kékes males are mesochranial - orthocranial - metriocranial - eurymetopic - mesoprosopic - mesen - mesoconch - mesorrhinian and of a small medium stature, the Jutas ones differ from them by reason of thei dolichocranial and leptorrhinian, the Szebény ones by the metriometopic and leptoprosopic, characters and medium stature, the Csákberény males by their metriometopic feature (no stature data hadn been published), and the Előszállás population by the metriometopic leptoprosopic - hypsiconch - chamaerrhinian characters and medium stature. As a result of the comparison it can now be stated that it is the findings from Csákvár which show the greatest agreement with the male material of the cemetery under examination. It should be remarked here that a certain morphological agreement, expressed in the mean values of the main indices, does not Indicate the similarity, as to the single types of a great race,of the populations of the cemeteries.cited above. In this respect, the analysis of the main indices, e.g. the distribution of the values of the cranial, total and upper face, indices, is most important. Results show that the frequency of the dolicho- and hyperdolichocranial character is the