The Avars, as other steppic peoples in the Carpathian basin were highly mixed origin peoples. The original Avars in Inner Asia/Siberia were Mongoloids of course, but basically the average Avar in the Carpathian basin were an Europid. Yes, the ancestors of these Europids were not Avars, but they were Avars, they assimilated, they followed the Avar culture, lifestyle, art of war and because of this, the language too presumably. And this is important, these Europid elements mostly were not the local elements, but the average Eastern European steppic elements (Cromagnoids, Eastern meds)!
The meds between the Avars were mostly Eastern meds and Nordo-meds with an important layer of the Gracile meds. These gracile meds were presumably local or Balkanite origin peoples. Or more punctually Avar peoples with local or Balkanite ancestry.
A typical Avar cemetery:
"Twenty of the men's skulls were suitable for detailed taxonomical analysis. With one exception (Grave No. 143) the skulls could be put in the Europid major race.
There were 12 robust skulls, with markedly protruding nasal bones, large glabellae and powerful jaws as their common caharacteristics. The Nordic type was the most common among them, and it had a dominant appearance in three cases (Grave Nos 72, 110 and 130). The narrow kind of face was uncovered with moderately long and wide braincases in three cases, and therefore their cranial indices were mesocran (Grave Nos 104/B and 129), or brachycran (Grave No. 136). Two mesoprosop, mesen faces (Grave Nos 138, 145), and one mesoprosop, euryen face (Grave No. 39) were present with large absolute measurements and long braincases, these individuals could be deduced from the mixing of Nordic and Cromagnoid types. Three skulls had euryprosop, euryen facial indices. One of them was hyperdolichocran (Grave No. 41), another one had a short, yet very wide braincase, which made it brachycran (Grave No. 124). The third one was a mesocran skull, that could clearly be classified as coming under the Cromagnoid-A race (Grave No. 107).
Seven skulls were expressly gracile. Two of them were typical gracile Mediterraneans (Grave Nos 25 and 51), one skull was mesoprosop, mesen (Grave No. 19/A), four skulls possessed euryprosop, mesen facial indices (Graves Nos 93, 109, 113 and 132), and therefore these later ones presented a an intermediate form between races Mediterranean and Cromagnoid.
Six of the female skulls could be evaluated, and these bore a markedly mixed combination of elements from races Nordic, Mediterranean and Cromagnoid. The woman of Grave No. 112 was Nordic, but mesocran because of her moderately long, wide braincase. The woman of Grave No. 45 was of the Nordic-Cromag-noid-A type, the skull uncovered from Grave No. 59 could be put in the Cro-magnoid-A race, both were dolichocran. The following three gracile skulls bore Mediterranean and Cromagnoid-A elements: that of Grave No. 111 was mesocran euryprosop, with a mesen facial index. The cranium from Grave No. 127 was hyperdolichocran, mesoprosop, euryen, the dolichocran one from Grave No. 133 was mesoprosop, with a mesen face.
The above mentioned men's and women's skulls presented a morphologically unified image. Nordic, Cromagnoid and Mediterranean racial elements were mixed in them to the degree when a "clear" type seldom occured. Many generations earlier an unidentifiable type with short and wide braincases was presumably melted into this population.
The male skull from Grave No. 143 must be separately treated, as it morphology was completely different from that of all the others. Determination of its sex was made a bit uncertain by some feminine features of the skull and by the bad preservation of the skeleton. The distance of the orbital cavities was very large, the nasal cavity was "blown up". Large absolute measurements were also characteristic for this cranium, with a long braincase, a face of medium width and with a wide upper face. Its orbital and nasal cavities were all very wide. Its probable taxonomical classification could be Ural-Cromagnoid-A. Because of the evident difference to all the other individuals we have not utilized the data of this skull among the summarized data of men."
Anthropological analysis of the Avar Period cemetery of Kereki-Homokbánya
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