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These results, shown in Table 10 and in the phenogram in Figure 4, suggest another arbitrary level of significance at 0.007. In this case, groups no longer form below the significance level and as larger groups are created, population samples arrive in the grouping at nearly normal intervals; each interval is approximately the numerical size of the minimum generated significance level. It is of interest here that the 4 th and 5 th century samples now coalesce with an 11-13 th century sample, which was dictated from the MMD's in Table 7. It is probably of less interest to notice that the Rácalmás sample, a 10 th century sample and the Sárbogárd sample, another 10 th century sample, are about equal distance from each other as they are from the 4 th-5 th century and 11 th- 13 th century combined samples. This type of phenogram develop-ment, particularly from Table 7, may suggest that populations from a geographical locale are more stable over time, suggesting the similarity in frequencies of non-metric variables, and thence possibly genetic distance, rather than the spatial separation between these and some other samples. While the MMD's presented in Table 7 and their cophenetic correlation (0.804) was not highly significant, by the time the population samples were coalesced into significant sample groupings, the cophenetic correlation was increased to 0.902, a highly significant figure (Sokal-Derish 1988). This is the first analysis of these samples strictly by nonmetric trait variation. As we continue research on these samples, in the direction of adding cultural and spatial differences as well as including other samples from similar and later times in Transdanubia as well as the larger Carpathian Basin, we will try to elaborate more closely on the differences between these and other earlier human populations. Acknowledgements - The authors are indebted to the staff of the King St. Stephen Museum in Székesfehérvár for their assistance in the course of data collecting during July and August of 1990. We thank Kansas State University for providing computer facilities used in this analysis. 65
