Dr. T. Tóth szerk.: Paleoanthropological studies (Anthropologia Hungarica 8/1-2. Budapest, 1968)
Let us now attempt to analyse, or compare, the populations of the Transdanubian cemeteries, discussed above, as to ethnic composition. L. BARTUCZ regards the partial population of Jutas as a mixed northern - Mediterranean - East Baltic - Alpine material. T. TÓTH observed the preponderance of Protoeuropoide - Mediterranean - brachycranial Europoide elements in the Szebény findings, and Lhose of brachycranial Europoide - Protoeuropoide types in the Csákvár material. On the basis of my investigations, the Előszállás material reveals northern - Mediterranean - Cromganoid-A - brachycranial Europoide type elements. On the partial population of the Avar Period inhabiting the Kékesd area, features characterizing mainly Cromagnoid-A - Cromagnoid-B - gracile Mediterranean-northern elements can be observed. On the basis of the occurrence or distinguishability , respectively, of the type elements discernible in the anthropological material of the Transdanubian cemeteries, it can be stated that the partial population of Kékesd is most similar to that of Jutas. Summary 1. The anthropological examination .of the Avar Period cemetery at Kékesd resulted in the separation of the following taxonomic subgroups: 1. A dolicho - mesocranial - mesoprosopic group, revealing features characterizing mainly Cromagnoid-A, gracile Mediterranean, and northern elements; II. A brachy - mesocranial - meso - euryprosopic group, with features resembling chiefly the Cromagnoid-B (eastern Europoide) type. 2. With respect to the entire aspect of the cemetery, Europoide features predominate. Some features of the Mongoloidé physiognomy are observable on merely one skull . 3. In accordance with the simultaneous assessment of the morphological characters, the findings of the Kékesd cemetery can be relegated to BARTUCZ ' s group III (Europoide) of the Avar Period cemeteries in Hungary. 4. On the basis of comparison with the male and female series of a Europoide character from the Avar Period in the Transdanubia (Jutas, Szebény- I, Csákberény, Előszállás), the male and female findings of Kékesd show most morphological agreements with the Csákberény (male), and the Jutas as well as the Előszállás (female) materials . 5. The racial composition of the Transdanubian, and in general the native Avar Period, population is repeatedly found in the most divers cemeteries ,hence it were most important, on the one hand, to delimit archeologically , cronologlcally and typologically the Avar Period cemeteries of a Mongoloidé and Europoide character, and on the other, to further delineate the criteria defining the Europoide type elements, as well as to investigate the preceding population anthropolgically , which involves, last but not least, the obtaining of as much authentic anthropological material as possible for the establishment 'of the outlines of the ethnic groups, the racial composition, and the distribution, of the population in the Avar Period.
