Anthropologo-odontological investigation of Bulgarian population from Central Western Bulgaria

Tsvetan, Minkov, Nadejda, Tosheva, Borislav, Ivanovich

Glasnik Antropološkog društva Jugoslavije

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0351-1480

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2006-2021/11/05/10:16:47

The investigation covers 400 individuals, men and women from contemporary Bulgarian population from four regions of Central Western Bulgaria, namely Trudovets, Buc-hovo, Svoge and Slivnitsa, considering 15 basic odontological features, great part of them having race-diagnostic meaning. The investigation is held, according to Zubov's methodics (1968).. The percentage distribution of the odontological features is traced in order to establish the extent to which the investigated population is homogeneous or heterogeneous according to the examined odontological features. It was established that according to the odontological features the investigated population predominantly has the features of the Western odontological stem. According to some odontological features however as crowding shovel-shape of upper medial incisors it is characterized by higher concentration, out of the boundaries of the odontological stem, mentioned above. This is an indication for the presence of Eastern elements in the ethnogenesis of this population. The investigation of the contemporary Bulgarian population from different regions in Bulgaria is carried out in different branches of anthropology-somatology der-matglyphics, odontology, bloodgroup markers, etc. The population from Central Western Bulgaria is investigated in anthropological aspect with the methods of dermatoglyphics, paleoanthropology and odontology, hately when we have to answer a number of questions concerning the ethnogenesis of different human populations, the results from the odontological investigations stand out with their great value. They give us the opportunity to trace the percentage distribution of the odontological features among the different human populations from different regions of the Earth (Zoubob, 1968). The investigated odontological features have race-diagnostical and taxonomical meaning (Zoubov, 1973) and help to answer the questions, connected with the ethnogenesis of the investigated human populations.