Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 95. (Budapest 2003)
Bernert, Zs.: The anthropological data of Kéthely-Melegoldal cemetery's Keszthely-Culture population
category by all the class categories of ALEKSEEV and DEBEC (1964). It was mesocran by the cranial index, orthocran according to the length-height index, metriometop by the transversal-frontoparietal index. The upper face was mesen, the orbital cavity mesoconch, width of nose mesorrhin (Table 4). Her cranial capacity was small, oligencephal (1181 cm 3 ). Long bones were better preserved than skulls. The upper limb long bones were measurable with 10 individuals, those of the lower limbs were suitable for measuring with 16 ones (Table 5). Stature was calculable for 4 men and 6 women. The average stature of men turned out to be 170.9 cm, while that of women 156.8 cm. Men could be placed in the tall classification category, women in the large-medium one. Taxonomical analysis Because of the bad preservation of the cemetery's anthropological material only the skeletons uncovered in Grave No. 14 and in Grave No. 21 were found suitable for taxonomical analysis. The metric and morphologic characteristics of the skulls and the skeletons put these adult women in the Europid circle of races and in the gracile mediterranean type within it. The largest anthropological sample of Keszthely-Culture was dug up by V. LIPP and the majority of those 102 skulls also belonged to the gracile Mediterranean race (VARGA et al. 2001). Analyis of non-metric data Non-metric characteristics could be observed on 11 skulls (Table 6), but the majority of characteristics was observable only on a few skulls. In our text we mention only those characteristics, which we managed to examine in more than 5 cases. Adventitious suturae: We found no sutura metopica. Its presence could be examined on 9 skulls, therefore its representation was below 10% within this population. Sutura supranasalis was found in one case. Its presence was examinable on 7 skulls, so its frequency presumably could be in the region of 14%. Suturai bones: We found no adventitious bones in crown and sagittal suturae. The frequency of suturai bones in these two suturae was below 15% within the population. In the lambdoid suture one or more suturai bones were found on the left side in 3 out of 7 cases, therefore ossa suturae lambdoidea had a frequency of 35^40%. Lambdoid bone was found in 1 case out of 6 (17%), inca bone in 1 case out of 8 (13%). Annls hist.-nat. M its. natn. hung. 95. 2003
