Dr. T. Tóth szerk.: Studia historico-anthropologica (Anthropologia Hungarica 11. Budapest, 1972)

Anthropological Examination of the Osteological Material Deriving from the Avar Period Cemetery at Tiszavas vár (Hungary) Sándor WENGER Anthropological Department Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest There is no other culture or people in Hungary to have left so many and so richly populated cemeteries behind them than the Avars, stated BARTUCZ (1950), attributing this phenomenon to their prolonged stay in a comparatively closed ethnic unity in the country, and mainly to their great population number. The mere numbers and relatively large size of the Avar Period cemeteries - as compared to those of other ages and peoples render it beyond doubt that the Avars brought with them a huge mass of orientals to Hungary and that they played an important part in evolving the ethnic and anthropological character of the subsequent population of the country. Investigations therefore into the anthropological material of the Avar Period cemeteries submit indispensable evidence for the understanding, and not infrequently the solution, of anthropological problems concerning Hungary or occasionally the entire Eurasian region. The area of the Upper Tisza, mostly that covered by the Comitat Szabolcs-Szatmár, was also conquered and settled by the Avars. The archeológiát CSALLÁFY (1958) contends it safely to suppose that at the time of the- Avar, conquest of Comitat Szabolcs-Szatmár this part of the country had the same Gepid indigeneous population as that of the greater part of the region beyond the river Tisza. According to him, however, this was not the true