Значението на антропологията за етногенезиса
The Importance of Anthropology for Ethnogenesis

Summary/Abstract: This article outlines the social and biological essence of man which is a prerequisite for the mutually conditioned connections of anthropology with history, ethnography, archaeology and linguistics. This is very clear in resolving the questions of ethnogenesis. Anthropology usually has the character of an auxilliary science for the historian, but it sometimes solves the questions of ethnogenesis. One example of this which can be pointed out is the origin of the Thracians, the Slavs and finally the proto-Bulgarians and the announcement of certain now data of anthropological studies so far unpublished. The author emphasizes that certain customs, which leave traces on the bones of men, can only be explained by way of anthropology: trepanations on human beings after death in the Neolithic and Chalcolithic Ages, artificial deformations of the head and symbolical curative trepanations on the skulls of the proto-Bulgarians, mutilations (cripplings) of the limbs after death of Slavs and mediaeval Bulgarians and mutilations of the teeth among the Turkic peoples, etc.

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