Dr. T. Tóth szerk.: Studia historico-anthropologica (Anthropologia Hungarica 10. Budapest, 1971)
On the basis of the burial rites and the grave furniture, the cemetery of the Tengelic Population can unequivocally be dated to the tenth century, A. D. The state of preservation of the osseous material is, according to the assessment method introduced by Éry-Kralovánsz ky-Tî eme skéri (1963), comparatively good. The quantitive representation value of the bones of the adults is O.64, the qualitative one O.37, that is, more than half of the available osseous material allows measurement analysis. The state of preservation Of the bones of children is even better; their quantitative and qualitative value is 0.81. In the present paper, the elaboration of only the anthropological finds is submitted, delimited - Owing to restrictions of space - to the most important characteristics. The osseous material was measured according to Martin (1928),the stature calculated by Wolanski»s nomogram(l953 ) with recourse to Pearson's method (1899). The age of the adults was determined, according to NemeskériHarsányi-Acsádi' s method (i960), by four morphological age-Indicators: the endocranial ossification of the cranial sutures (O), the inner structural modifications of the proximal epiphysis of the humerus (H) and the femur (P), and the surface changes in the facie s symphyseos of the pubic bone (S), The age of the children was determined by the state of eruption of the teeth, using Schranz's formula (1959). Sex was determined with Éry-Kralovánszky-Nemeskéri* s method (1963) on the basis of 22 morphological characteristics, while, in the case of the ischio-pubic index, Gaillard's method (196I) was followed. The chemical analysis of the Tengelic series was made by Dr. I. Lengyel, who made available his findings for the purposes of the present paper.The author is indebted for his kind help; several of his statements will be cited below.
