Изкуствената деформация на главата като етнодиференциращ белег
Artificial Deformation of the Head as an Ethnodifferentiating Sign

Summary/Abstract: The custom of artificially deforming the head in various historical ages is traced by means of palaeoanthropological researches. The forms and degrees of artificial deformation are studied in detail, answers being sought to a number of questions: what were the motives for resorting to this deformation, the ways of obtaining it, the presence of secondary influences, etc. Data are cited on the frequency and spread of this custom according to areas and a connection is looked for with racial types, and hence also with definite ethnoses. The presence of artificially deformed skulls in Bulgaria at the end of Antiquity is connected with the so-called barbarian invasions, more exactly with those of the Goths and the Alano-Sarmatians. The mass character of artificial deformation of heads in certain early Bulgarian necropolises of the 7th-10th century (with a frequency of 30 to 70 per cent) is connected with proto-Bulgarian ethnic appurtenance.

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