Произход на капанците и хърцоите по антропологични данни
Origins of the Kapantsi and the Harlsoi according to Anthropological Data

Summary/Abstract: In order to establish their ethnogenesis, an anthropological study was made of 3600 persons of both sexes among the population of North-Eastern Bulgaria. Of them 678 were Kapantsi and Hartsoi. These are the two Bulgarian ethnographic groups whose ethnogenesis had not been elucidated. It was not known which of the three basic components of the Bulgarian people — Slavs, Proto-Bujgarians and Thracians — predominated in them. The methodics of the Moscow School of Anthropology were used in the study and the results obtained were computerized. The most frequently met race among the two groups was the Mediterranean, followed by the Northern in its two varieties — the Eastern Baltic (more often among the Kapantsi) and the Western (more often among the Hartsoi), followed by the Dinaric race. Mongoloid elements were also found, most of all among the Kapantsi, manifested chiefly as the Turanian race. Its Russian variant (sometimes even apparent in red hair), characteristic of the Proto-Bulgarian tribe of the Suvari (Savari), the Kumanians and the Huns, is also found among them. Among the Kapantsi, the Pamir-Fergan racial type is also encountered which is typical of the Proto-Bulgarians of all tribal unions studied in Bulgaria. Racial typography makes it possible to establish that of all the Proto-Bulgarian ethnic groups the largest number of Proto-Bulgarian elements is found among the Kapantsi, followed by Slav elements and a smaller amount of Thracian elements. Kumanians also had a part in their ethnogenesis. They are not found among the Hartsoi, who represented the Slav tribe of Poljani with a large admixture of Proto-Bulgarians and a small one of Thracians.

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