Dr. T. Tóth szerk.: Studia historico-anthropologica (Anthropologia Hungarica 18. Budapest, 1983)

In the present paper first of all the 21 groups of Hungarians studied by us had been compared in respect to their combined frequency of the worls and hypothenar patterns. As it is known (GLADKOVA 1966) in Eurasian continent from the west to the east the frequency of the hypothenar pattern decreases, whereas the frequency of the worls increases. Thus both of these traits are significant for the dermatoglyphic character of "Europoid" and "Mongoloid". It can be seen from Fig. 2 that the three east and east-west groups - Taktabáj (7), Szendrő (12) and Rozsály (21) should be separated from the of the rest groups by the largest frequency of whorls and the least and middle ones of the hypothenar pattern. The west group Kisfalud (11) and the West Balaton group Becsvölgye (14) are close to the Russians from Valdai (22) (PROKUDINA 1971). Fig. 1 Map of the distribution of the studied Hungarian groups: 1 = Őrség, 2 = Milejszeg, 3= Kunhegyes, 4= Jászapáti, 5= Gacsály, 6= Mezőkövesd, 7= Taktabáj, 8= Himód, 9= Karcag, 10= Gyöngyöstarján, 11= Kisfalud, 12= Szendrő, 13= Kustánszeg, 14= Becsvölgye, 15= Petrikeresztúr, 16= Csonkahegyhát, 17= Jászárokszállás, 18= Jászfényszaru, 19" Szikszó, 20 = Matolcs, 21 = Rozsály The groups from Middle Tisza - Kunhegyes (3), Jászapáti (4) and Karcag (9) - are quite similar to each other in regard to the mean value of the whorls and hypothenar patterns. The other groups seem to differ from them. The east group Matolcs (20) is characterized by the highest frequency of hypothenar patterns. The west group Őrség (1) and the north-east group Szikszó (19) are near to each other. Compared were further the 21 groups of Hungarians and that one of Russians from Valdai on the basis of mean sums of positive and negative deviations from a conventional zerogroup, for which we took the Kazakhs (GLADKOVA 1964) attributed to the South-Siberian anthropological type. Chosen were for sum analysis 8 traits - the frequency of arches, loops (ulnar + radial), whorls, the patterns on hypothenar, interdigital pads III and IV, the type 11 D and carpal axial triradius. The frequency of all these traits had been given in our previous works.