Dental anthropology of the contemporary Bulgarian population from some regions of Northwest Bulgaria

Tsvetan, Minkov, Borislav

Glasnik Antropološkog društva Jugoslavije

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0351-1480

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2006-2021/11/05/10:17:07

More than 100 persons from the region Biala Slatina of both sexes and 100 men and women from Borovan were researched on 13 basic odontological features with diag-nostically and taxonomically significance. The research is done over the teeth of learners on age between 12 and 16 tears, because their teeth are still in a good state of preservation from erasing in respect of their morphological special features. The research to is done according the method of A. Zubov (1968). On the base of the researched evidences was determined that according to the frequency of the odontologically characteristics the researched population refers to the West odontological bole. On some odontologica characteristics, such as the shovel-shaped upper medial incisors and 1 pr. (II) can be seen risen frequency. This is an indication of the participation of the "east" admixture in the ethnogenesis of the researched population. It is historically known, that still in the first millennium Thracian tribes have participated in the ethnogenesis of the population from northwest Bulgaria and partial in the territory of Vrachansko. At the end of the V century the Balkan Peninsula was consecutive attacked by the Slavs. Later, the Bulgarian population has exposed on the influence of Proto-Bulgarian elements. That is why the population of northwest Bulgaria was formed from the three basic components in the composition of the Bulgarians, namely the Thracians, Slavs and the Proto-Bulgarians. It is interesting this population to be researched in anthropological aspect. In the contemporary anthropological researches abreast of the using of somatological, dermatoglifical, blood and others anthropological methods, received current the odontological researches, based on a great number of odontological characteristics with race-diagnostically and taxonomically significance (Vasshtaeva, 1977, Gadjiev, 1973, Zubov, 1968 Minkov, 1977, 1978, 1978, 1982, 1983, 1987).