Szekessy Vilmos (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 58. (Budapest 1966)

Tóth, T.: The period of transformation in the process of metisation. (A paleoanthropological [sic] sketch)

Transformation of the facial skeleton from the Bronze Age to contemp. population (Altai-Sayan Range) Ftg.1. —

r T —j Mongoloids the race-genesis of population of the K arassuk culture of the Late Bronze Age. On the other hand, it is worthy of note that the time element necessary for this assimilation is more than a thousand years. The infiltration of the Mongoloid elements in the area of the Altai—Sayan Range continued from the beginning of the Neometallic time (Tagar I period ; ALEXEYEV, 1957), and, as related to the Paleometallic period, the proportion of the Mongoloid elements had to a certain rate increased in the character-complex to the midphase of the Neometallic Time (Tagar III; ALEXEYEV, 1901 b). This infiltrational process, that is, its morphogenetic effects, was enacted in 500 years, but the preponderance of the Europoid component in the anthropological composition of the total population remained unchanged (Table 1, 0, Fig. 1). In the midphase of the Neometallic time, other ethnic groups arrived to the Altai—Sayan area (ALEXEYEV, 1961b), causing a further strengthening of the process of Mongolization, and became dominant in the anthropological composition of the population to the end of the Neometallic Period. Since the anthropological composition of the present ethnic groups inhabiting Khakassia agrees in essentials with that of the Late Iron Age, the rate of distinctness of the Mongoloid features became stabil in the Altai—Sayan Range from the tenth century (ALEXEYEV, 1961 b). This means that the mixing intensity of the respective characteristics increased during the first thousand years A.D. The intensity is interconnected with the Hun period (Tashtuek culture) and the srd^sequent times of the Türk kaganate. in the second contact-zone of the Europoid and Mongoloid components, to wit,