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296 T. TÓTH the surface conditions of the facies malaris, since the development of the crista zygomatica, defined by the museums zygomaticus, is varying and it may extend to the entire median portion of the os malare. Hence, in such cases, the possibility is not precluded that at least some intraserial os malare data attain high values in findings to be defined as Europoids according to other characters. In this respect, it is worthy of note that the malar arc index of the Early Iron Age Europoide series originating from the Palestine (Tell Duweir, Lachish), studied by RISDON (1939), is very high (22.8) and that it strongly approaches the mean maximum, as known at present, of the Esquimaux (index value 23.6; Woo, 1937). As concerns our series listed above, the os malare cannot be interpreted categorically as a primary taxonomical character in connection with intra- and interracial variability, but may submit essential and complementing differential diagnostic data for the delimitation of the main taxonomic groups of the Eurasian continent. For an analysis of sexual dimorphism and certain other problems, the future utilization of the data of the female craniological series and, in general, an increase of the amount of évaluable findings are indispensable. References: 1. BÍRÓ, L. Német-Új Guineai (Berlinhafeni) néprajzi gyűjtéseinek leíró jegyzéke (Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum Néprajzi Gyűjteményei I., Budapest, 1899, p. 7. old) — 2. BÍRÓ, L. Német-Új Guineai (Ástrolabe-öböl) néprajzi gyűjtéseinek leíró jegyzéke (Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum Néprajzi Gyűjteményei III., Budapest, 1901 pp. 13—19.) — 3. BODROGI, T.: Fenichel Sámuel (Enthnographia, 76, 3 — 4, 1954, Budapest, pp. 567 — 580) — 4. COMAS, J. : História y Bibliographia de los Congresos Internaeionales de Ciencias Antropológicas : 1865—1954 (UNAM, Mexico, 1956, p. 310) — 5. DEZSŐ, GY. : A Population of the Scythian Period between the Danube and the Tisza (Antropológia Hungarica, 7, 1966, Budapest, pp. 35 — 83) — 6. NEMESKÉRI, J. : Contributions à la reconstruction de la population de Veszprém, X

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