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

The basis of the work of our Institute consisted primarily of the collecting of historico-anthropological series during the twenty-five years under discussion. Collecting was especially intensive until I960, but our collection was enriched also subsequently by quantitatively large series, well illustrated by the more than eleven thousand inventoried crania and extremities deriving from 582 localities in Hungary until 1970(Table l). This means that there were found human skeletons and cemeteries from all periods of social history - that is,from the Neolithic to modern times - figuratively beside every sixth settlement of the country. These series are represented in various proportions, but it is noteworthy that mainly the Avar Epoch and that of the Árpádian Dynasty are especially richly represented in our collection. Our historico-anthropological collection was even richer than this, but more than 3000 skeletons have been ceded to the Anthropological Institute of the József Attila University of Sciencies, Szeged, and to the King Stephan Museum, Székesfehérvár, in I964. Also, the extensive damages suffered in 1956 (800 skeletons) instigated our authorities to provide us with better and larger storage facilities. As a matter of fact, our historico-anthropological collection of series, originating from archeologically well identified periods and thereby fully suitable for the elaboration of various scientific problems, is the most valuable one after those preserved in the museums of Leningrad, London, Moscow, Paris, and Washington. We also have a small collection of skeletons (120 individuals) from Africa, Egypt, America, Asia, the Ukraine, and New Guinea. The scientific staff of the Department have, beyond the museological care of our own collection, rendered extensive help (inventory and filing) in attending the osteological materials preserved in the various county museums. In this respect, the activities of M. Malán and S. Wenger should be mentioned first, as research workers participating In situ in the formation of the local collections. In view of the extensive increase of material, we initiated a survey of the capacity for collecting and housing osteological material in the county museums in August, 1965, and concluded it successfully, by the Ministry of