Dr. T. Tóth szerk.: Studia historico-anthropologica (Anthropologia Hungarica 10. Budapest, 1971)

Tengelic and the two Sarqùatian groups form an adjoining, closed cluster. The two Altai-Saian series also form a close cluster with each other, but their connection with the preceding thriple group is above the 2.00 limiting value. And high above the 2.00 similarity level, Kál joins the assemblage. 4.0 3.0 20 iJ) 00 99 •Tengelic -Sarmatianö, VdgrAstr. group •Sarmatms, Saratov group Tagar3. -Tashtuk •Kál Figure 1. Dendogram of Tengelic and the Closest Series In the final analysis therefore, only the two Sarmatian groups can, on the basis of the 12 cranial measurements applied, be considered close to Tengelic. The similarity of the Tagar 3 and Tastük series had to be discarded, if for nothing more because, according to the facial profile study, the proportion of the Mongoloid elements become increasingly emphasized in both of them, and especially in the material of the Tastük period (Alexeyev, 1961; Tóth, 1966). The fact that there appears a connection between a population of the Conquest period of the Central Danubian Basin and the Sarmatian populations of South Russia is no more surprising. The same relationship was revealed in examining the distance connections of Kál in the tenth century and Ártánd Of the VIIIIX centuries (Éry, 1967, 1970). These morphological connections are important ethnogenetic tracers and they agree with Tóth'

s hypothesis that the process of the anthropological formation of the Magyars at the Conquest period began already in the Sarmatian Age, enacted regionally in the North Caspian area (Tóth, 1965, 1966, 1969a, b).