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2 is quite high: 9.47. The other values are above 10. The males of Ártánd are the farthest from the males of Kaba (21.27). The females of Kaba are more similar to the other Avar period female series than the males. The females of Szentes-Kaján (3.60) and Tiszavasvári (4.45) are the closest to them. Szeged - Makkoserdő (5.62) is still relatively close. The females of Jánoshida (10.47) are the most different from those of Kaba but even they are more similar than most of the male series are to the males of Kaba. The special indices of ALEXEEVA Ten Avar period series were examined (Table 8). The males of Kaba show a relative similarity to the males of Szeged - Makkoserdő, Szentes - Kaján and Tiszavasvári on the basis of the correlation of skull height-breadth-length and of upperface-skull height (Fig 1). The females of Szarvas - Kákapuszta and Tiszavasvári display the greatest similarity to the females of Kaba. They are closer to our series than the similar male series to the males of Kaba (Fig 3). On the basis of the correlations of cranial height-orbital height and of nasal breadth-facial breadth the male series does not present any similarity to the comparative cemeteries (Fig 2). Kecel, Szeged - Kundomb and Szeged - Makkoserdő are the most similar to the female series of Kaba in the case of females. Tiszavasvári is far from Kaba since the value of the nasal breadth-facial breadth is higher (Fig 4). In concluding we may establish that the series of Tiszavasvári and Szeged - Makkoserdő are the closest to the series of Kaba. SUMMARY When summarizing the results of the comparative examinations the male group of Kaba is not in fact similar to any other male series of the chosen comparative cemeteries. The males of Szentes Kaján and Tiszavasvári are the most similar by ALEXEEVA's indices. Szentes - Kaján is relatively close to our males on the basis of the PENROSE distance. This dissimilarity springs from the fact that the characteristics of the male skulls of Kaba are: brachycranic, hypsicranic, akrocranic and eurymetopic, namely they are short, high and wide, not typical for the average Avar " cemeteries. The females of Kaba show the greatest similarity to the series of Szentes - Kaján, Tiszavasvári and Szarvas - Kákapuszta. As the females of Kaba display a higher similarity to the females of the geographically closer cemeteries, it is possible that the females represent some settled or autochthonous population. However, the males of Kaba are dissimilar to ah the typical earlier settled Avar male series, therefore, it is reasonable to suggest that they have arrived later to this territory. REFERENCES ALEXEEVA, T.I. (1966): Die Slawen und ihre Nachbarn (Nach anthropologischen Daten). Anthropologie (Praha) 4: 3-37. ALEXEEV, V.P. & DEBETS, G.F. (1964): Kraniometriya. Metodika anthropologitsheskih i.ssledovanii. Izd. Nauka, Moskva: 128 pp. BACH, H. (1965): Zur Berechnung der Körperhöhe aus den angen Gliedmassenknochen weiblicher Skelette. - Anthrop. Anz., 29: 12-21. BREITINGER, E. (1938): Zur Berechnung der Körperhöhe aus den langen Gliedmassenknochen. Anthrop. Anz., 14: 249-274. ÉRY, K. (1967): An anthropological study of the late Avar period population of Ártánd. - Annls hist.-nat. Mus. natn. hung., 59: 465-484. FARKAS, Gy. (1972): Antropológiai praktikum I. [Anthropological practice I.] - Szeged: 28-66 (Manuscript, in Hungarian).