Dr. T. Tóth szerk.: Studia historico-anthropologica (Anthropologia Hungarica 10. Budapest, 1971)
great race in the composition of the Avar Age populations is considerably smaller than averred by previous authors. He states ,concerning the occurrence of the Mongoloid character, that "ethnic groups from Inner Asia or Eastern Siberia had not settled in all topographic units during the time of the Great Migrations". In his paper, Tóth illustrated conspicuously In his correlational fields the geographic distribution of the three races occurring in the Avar Age, namely that of the Europoid, Europo-Mongoloid, and Mongoloid groups. Since, according to the conclusions drawn above, the examined material belonged, with few exceptions, to the gracile Mediterranean type, I intended, in the comparative analysis, to study only those of the Avar Age cemeteries, rather adjacent to one another geographically ,which represented Mediterranean elements in a considerable measure. In the cemetery of Bágyogszovát,the locally nearest one - being removed only by 10 km - the Europoid and Mongoloid elements are sharply distinguished (Tóth, 1967b, Dezso, 1968). The percent distribution Is as follows: Europoid 77 %, Mongoloid 23 %. The Europoid great race can again be subdivided into two groups,the Cro-Magnoid B (47 %) and the gracile Mediterranean (30 %). This gracile Mediterranean element may obviously connected with our present material under study. The gracile and dolichocranial skulls of the population interred in the Sopron-Kóhida cemetery (still under elaboration) during the ninth century, also show many similarities with the skulls from Csorna. The Sopron-Kóhida site is about 50 km to the west. All other cemeteries, coming into consideration for comparison, are more removed, both geographically (at least by 100 km) and with respect to the taxonomic features from the group of the Csorna cemetery under study.
