Биологична реконструкция на късноантични популации от българските земи
A Biological Reconstruction of the Populations in the Bulgarian Lands in Late Antiquity

Summary/Abstract: The authors set forth the results of research work on 774 skeletons from necropoliseis, dating back to the early 2nd up to the end of the 5th century A. D. The metric analysis made shows inter-group differences, as well as considerable intra-group variability in anthropological features. Essential differences in the taxonomically important skull measurements of the series from Abrittus and Augusta Trajana have been mathematically and statistically proved. The racial-typological analysis showed predominance of South European racial types, the classical forms of the Mediterranean race being most frequent in the population of Augusta Trajana, that of the Alpine race in Armyra, while in the population of Abrittus and Varna there is a larger percentage of the proto-Mediterranean as well as of the Northern and Cromagnon forms. The demographic analysis made showed an average life duration of between 42 and 47 years, with high infant mortality. Artificially deformed skulls were also studied and they are of 'barbarian' origin. Anthropological studies of populations in Late Antiquity have proved the varied ethnic composition of the population in the large centres of the Roman provinces of Moesia and Thrace.

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