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opinion to the entry on the area, about the year 900 A.D., and based on the about 40 originally interred individuals, it might have functioned for about one and a half generations. Accordingly, the cemetery must have been abandoned about 950 A.D. Presumably some 4-5 nuclear families might have lived together in the village, if the average number of individuals composing a nuclear family is 5 (Győrffy, 1963; Heme

skérl-Kralovánszky, 1967). The anthropological and archeological data fail to allow inferences drawn on the existence of any group formation in the cemetery: graves with or without f urniture

, brachy and dolichocranial individuals, adults and children are distributed evenly in the cemetery. Nothing more can be noted in this respect than that there were slightly more males in the right wing of the cemetery and more females in its left one, but the difference Is not significant. The chemical analysis sheds a wholly different light on this apparently unequivocal picture. According to I. Lengyel, two well distinguishable groups can be demonstrated in the population. He calls one of them a "local" group, consisting of 9 individuals (3 children, 1 male, and 5 females), the other an "eastern" group composed of 6 individuals (4 children,

2 males). The other 18 dead of the cemetery stand between these two groups and might be considered mixed.The problem is now whether the archeological and anthropological data refute or support the fact of the two groups established by the chemical analysis. The archeological furniture of the "local" group consists of an unicolorous paste-bead, an iron pin, and a shell (Cepea vindobonensis), whereas that of "eastern" group comprises simple hair-rings, a round,pressed rosette, a cauri shell, and a shank button. The furniture of the other graves are a simple hairring, rosette, iron ring, bow, quiver, arrow, saddle, stirrup and mouth-bit.