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

tenth century two groups can be distinguished. One is represented by meso-dolichocranial elements, the other by brachycranial elements. The former comprise mainly Nordoid, Mediterranean and Cromagnoid elements, the latter Turanid, Uralian, and Pamirian ones. Bartucz showed it already in 1926 that the leading stratum of the Conquest Hungarians can be characterized by Mongolian elements, while graves with a poorer archeological material contain representatives of mainly the Mediterranean and Hordóid races. According to TÓTH (1958b), the early Hungarians take an intermediate place between the Europoid and Mongoloid great races. In the composition of the Conquest Hungarians the Mongoloid component was present in an insignificant proportion only, whereas the great majority of Europoid elements predominated (1965, 1968b). In one of his earlier work (1957) but especially in his doctorate thesis (1970), LIPTÁK established the followings with respect to the anthropological facie s of the several social strata: a) the leading stratum is characterized by Turanid, Uralian, Pamirian and other brachycranial elements; b) the main components of the middle stratum derive from representatives of the Mediterranean, Hordóid and Pamirian races; c) the anthropological facie s of the commons is characterized by Mediterranean and Nordoid elements, but the participation of Cromagnoids - mainly Cromagnoid-A - is also significant. Owing to the rare occurrence of this latter, it can be considered characteristic. On the basis of these premises, the composition of the population at Nagytarcsa fits well into the archeological picture drawn of the middle stratum. The material can be compared with a number of series originating also from the tenth century; the following ones were drawn into the comparison: Abony (LIPTÁK 1951); Békés-Povádzug (LIP-