АНТРОПОЛОГИЧНИ ДАННИ ЗА ЕТНОГОНЕЗИСА НА РАННО СРЕДНОВЕКОВНА ПОПУЛАЦИЯ ОТ СЕВЕРОИЗТОЧНА БЪЛГАРИЯ
ANTHROPOLOGICAL DATA FOR THE ETHNOGENESIS OF AN EARLY MEDIEVAL POPULATION IN THE NORTH-EAST OF BULGARIA

Summary/Abstract: For clarifying the ethnogenesis of the Early Medieval population in the North-East of Bulgaria the osteal remains of 547 individuals have been explored. They have been discovered in the double-ritual necropolis dated VII-IX c. near Topola village in the region of Dobritch city. It has been made a detailed anthropological characteristics of the examined population, as well as a paleodemographic and a race-typological analyses. The cases with an artificial deformation of the skull (44%) have been studied in details, giving an account of the frequency, rate and forms of the deformation. It has been looked for some parallels between the application of this custom with some tribes of the Sarmatian community and it has been drawn a conclusion for its mass character with the population of Topola and for its relationship with the ethnic appertenance. It has been reported the participation of the two stocks - the Allanian and the Ugorian, in the proto-Bulgarian ethnos and also the participation of tribes situated between the rivers in the Middle Asia. The Slav elements of East-Baltic and proto-European race types have been well expressed. A conclusion has been made for the role of the Topola population which presents the Slavs and the proto-Bulgarians in the process of their blending when Bulgarian nationality had been formed.

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