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poor dental status. Lack of dental hygiene is shown by the poor status of dentition and by the great number of cystae/abscessi evolved from the progressed tooth decays, too. The number of carious lesions was particularly high. Possible reasons for this were the lack of dental hygiene and the carbohydrate-rich nutrition. The general dental health of the two samples was very similar to each other. Because of it, it is very likely that they consumed the same type of foods. This is partly verified by the almost same level of abrasion. On the other hand, occurrence of enamel hypoplasia was much more frequent among the common people of Fészerlak. On the strength of this result we believe, that besides the fact that the nutrition of both people was not satisfying (the supposedly wealthier inhabitants of Toponár had many hypoplastic teeth too, and the general status of dentition was very poor with both populations), inhabitants of Fészerlak had to live in want sometimes. In these periods, children weakened from starving must have caught diseases much easier and repeatedly, and signs of these diseases (and periods of starving) were preserved in the form of enamel hypoplasias. REFERENCES BRINCH, O. & MOLLER-CHRISTENSEN, V. (1949): Über vergleichende Untersuchungen über das Kariesvorkommen an archäologischem Schadelmaterial. - Schweizer Monatsschrift Zahnheilkunde 59: 853-880. ERY, K. (1992): Útmutató a csontvázleletek feldolgozásához. (Posztgraduális szakképzés jegyzete). [Handbook of skeletal remain's investigation (Work-book of Postgradual Education in Physical Anthropology).] - Manuscript. Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, Embertani Tanszék [Department of Physical Anthropology, Eötvös Loránd University], Budapest, 44 pp. FÓTHI, E. (1988): The anthropological investigation of the Avar-age cemetery of Fészerlak. Anthropologia hungarica 20: 31-53. FÓTHí, E. (1989): Avarkori populációk embertani problémái. [Anthropological problems of Avar populations.] - Doctoral thesis, Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, Embertani Tanszék [Department of Physical Anthropology, Eötvös Loránd University], Budapest, 135 pp. FÓTHI, E. (1991): A Kárpát-medence avar korának összehasonlító embertani vizsgálata (Eine komparative Untersuchung an awarenzeitlichen anthropologischem Material aus dem Karpathenbecken). - A Móra Ferenc Múzeum Évkönyve 1984-85 (2): 483-501. FRAYER, D. (1984): Tooth size, oral pathology and class distinctions evidence from the Hungarian Middle Ages. - Antropológiai közlemények 28: 175-179. GOODMAN, A. H. & ARMELAGOS, G. J. (1985a): The chronological distribution of enamel hypoplasia in human permanent incisor and canine teeth. - Archeological Oral Biology 30: 503-507. GOODMAN, A. H. & ARMELAGOS, G. J. (19856): Factors affecting the distribution of enamel hypoplasias within the human permanent dentition. - American Journal of Physical Anthropology 68: 479^93. HUSZÁR, G Y. & SCHRANZ, D. (1952): A fogszuvasodás elterjedése a Dunántúlon, az újabbkőkortól az újkorig. (Die Zahnkaries in Transdanubien von der Neolithenzeit bis zur Neuzeit.). Fogorvosi Szemle 45: 3-36.