Dr. I. Pap szerk.: Studia historico-anthropologica (Anthropologia Hungarica 22. Budapest, 1992)

stratification of the emigrants from the Sarmato-Alan world (representatives of the massive and gracile variants of the Pontic race, armenoids and of Central Asiatic interfluvial race), the Illyrian-ThracianScythian-Celtic aborigines inhabiting the Carpathian Basin. During the whole of the 1st millennium in the Central Danubian region the proportion of the massive North-Caspian variant of the Pontic race was increasing so it seems to be quite realistic to suppose that at least one part of the inhabitants of the Avar Khaganat was of Sarmato-Alan origin. 9. The theory about the Cis-Uralian (Kama-Belaia) old homeland of the ancient Hungarians who settled down in the Central Danubian Basin in the 10th century could not be confirmed by anthropological data. Multilateral comparisons have shown that the forming processes of the anthropological physiognomy of the ethnotribal compositions of ancient Hungarians took place in an area situated more to the South and chronologically more earlier in the far depth periods connected with the Sauromato-Sarmatian centuries. Notes - The present English text of the author's doctoral thesis is the translation of the original work published in Russian, in Moscow, in 1977. On the 2nd of May, 1977 the subject-matter of the dissertation was reviewed by the author at a special meeting held in the Department of Anthropology of the Hungarian Natural History Museum. According to the decision passed by the National Postgraduate Degree Granting Board of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences dissertation was defended the 10th February, 1978 at a joint session of the Anthropological Research Institute of the Moscow State University and of the Anthropological Chair above-mentioned University; the dissertation has been accepted with an unanimous consent. Certain parts of the dissertation have been reviewed by the author on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd International Finno-Ugric Congresses (Budapest 1960, Helsinki 1965, Tallin 1970), on the 7th International Anthropological and Ethnological Congress (Moscow 1964), on the 1st and 2nd Hungarian Anthropological Symposia (Budapest 1959, 1967), on the International Conference on the History, Archeology and Culture of Central Asia in the Kushan period (Dushanbe 1968) and on the 9th Meeting of the Hungarian Biological Association (Budapest 1970).