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)

Kirghizia, the process of trasformation lasted for two thousand years, from the beginning of the Neometallic Time (Vth century B.C.) to the evolvement of the anthropological picture of the Kirghiz people (XlVth century A.D.). In spite of the fact that the direction of the morphological transformations proceeding in the respective interminghng agrees in essentials with that observable in the Area of Kazahstan, the effect of the Mongoloid component in the anthropological composition of the Kirghizian Sakas asserted itself more strongly than in the case of the Kazahstanian Sakas (cr. the respective Table and Figures). The same holds in the comparison of the series from the Kirghizian and Kazahstanian Türk Periods. This is probably closely connected with the fact that the aboriginal Europoid population was not as high in numbers in the Area of Kirghizia as in Kazahstan, that is, the intensity of assimilation was stronger. Notwithstanding that from the beginning of the Türk Period to the evolvement of the anthropological picture of the Kirghiz people, the Mongoloid component became dominant by reason of a morphological transformation necessitating about 500 years (MIKLASHEVSKAYA: 1959, 1964; the present paper: Table 3, 8, Fig. 3). It should be mentioned, however, that DEBETS had already called attention (1956) to the anthropological difference between the Kirghizian and Pamirian Sakas, interconnected, by the way, also with the Mongoloid effects demonstrable in the Kirghizian Sakas. In the fourth contact-zone of the Europoid and Mongoloid components, namely in the Ural—Caspian Area, the gradual strengthening and subsequent dominancy of