Dr. T. Tóth szerk.: Studia historico-anthropologica (Anthropologia Hungarica 12. Budapest, 1973)

Anthrop. Hung. XII. 1973. The Anthropological Investigation of the Tenth Century Population Excavated at Nagy tárcsa Edit LOTTERHOF Anthropological Department Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest ABSTRACT: By the morphological, metric, and taxonomic study of findings originating from the second half of the tenth century, the present paper proposes to submit new data to the anthropological problems of the Hungarian Conquest. The population comprises Mediterranean, Nordoid, Cromagnoid and Alpine elements, characteristic of the middle stratum of the Conquest Hungarians; a statement corroborated by the comparative analysis. A number of workers studied the osteological remains excavated from cemeteries originating from the time of the Hungarian Conquest. L. BARTUCZ launched the first investigations already in 1926 and 1931. Subsequently, MAIAN (1941), NEMESKÉRI (1941, 1946-48); NEMESKÉRI - GÁSPÁRDY (1954), LIPTÁK (1951, 1970), and TÓTH (1958a,

b, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1968a, b, 1969a, b, 1970) submitted important data to the anthropology of the Conque sting Hungarians. The cemetery herein discussed lies in the sand-pit on the right side of the road connecting Cinkota and Nagytarcsa, near Nagytarcsa. Excavations led by L. KOVÁCS in 1967 resulted in 21 graves (and an additional 6 scattered graves, also elaborated herein). On the basis of the archeological finds, the cemetery can be dated to the second half of the tenth century (KOVÁCS 1968).