Szekessy Vilmos (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 53. (Budapest 1961)

Nemeskéri, J.: Fifteen years of the Anthropological Department of the Hungarian Natural History Museum (1945-1960)

Table Distribution of skeletal finds in the Anthropological Department, ^^^^ Regional distribution '\ ol finds Archeological ^ periods \^ Transdanubia Area between the Danube and the Tisza ^^^^ Regional distribution '\ ol finds Archeological ^ periods \^ site finds site finds ^^^^ Regional distribution '\ ol finds Archeological ^ periods \^ no. per cent no. per cent number per cent 0.93 no. per cent 2 1.34 2 0.05 1 per cent 0.93 1 0.04 7 4.66 381 9.52 8 7.44 75 3.37 Bronze Age 1 0.67 16 0.40 5 4.65 29 1.30 10 6.47 42 1.05 105 Scythian period 42 1 0.93 105 4.72 20 13.48 279 6.97 12.09 — 13 12.09 64 2.83 2.60 13 8.78 85 2.12 5 4.65 58 2.83 2.60 42 28.67 876 21.90 37 34.41 1194 53.61 7 4.66 60 1.50 14 13.27 73 3.28 17.55 10.70 35 23.88 2063 52.19 17 16.05 387 3.28 17.55 10.70 11 7.39 172 4.30 6 5.58 238 3.28 17.55 10.70 Total 148 100.00 3976 100.00 107 100.00 2224 99.99 sented by about the same amount of finds in the collection (24,6 per cent, that is, 23,0 per cent). However, aside of the quantitative data, the finds from the area between the Danube and the Tisza comprise of more representative series with respect especially to the Migration period. The smallest unit in the Collection is represented by the finds from North Hungary, at once apparent from the small number of items (187) and sites (29). The disproportion in the distribution with respect to the archeological periods and areas of the material of the collection also indicate the tasks and directions of the methodical collectings of the future. The historical anthropological collection of the Anthropological Department is completed by a file of records and the archives of the several excavations (descriptions of the graves, reports and minutes, sketches, maps, etc.). The main aim of the augmentation of the collection in 1945—1960 may be summarized by stating that we endeavoured to lay the fundamentals of historical anthropological investigations based on modern concepts. The first steps have decidedly been taken, and our future program will, first of all, tend to acquire, at least from every archeological period, samples of finds of a representative nature, which permit a complex framing, and the solution of the several problems.