Moscow University
Anthropology
Bulletin
Anthropology
Bulletin
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Anuchin Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Mokhovaya st., 11, Moscow, 125009, Russia
Batsevich Valery A., Ph.D., ORCID ID: 0000-0003-3833-1588, e-mail: batsevich53@mail.ru
The paper deals with comparative analysis of secular changes in a set of biological parameters in two groups of modern rural population, both children and adults, differing in the degree of modernization of traditional culture. Khalkha-Mongols investigated in four aymaks of Mongolia, preserved for the time being their traditional way of life. Chuvash population was investigated on the territory of Chuvashia and Bashkiria. In both groups, starting from 1920’s, professional and subsistence culture, family structure, ethnic culture and psychology have undergone through radical transformation. Intergroup comparisons were made for the following characteristics: tempos of age changes in hand bones (by Tanner-Whitehouse (TW2) method in children and OSSEO method in adults); age at menarche; height; biacromial diameter. Data obtained in 1980’s for a longevity group of Abkhazians (Chlou village, Ochamchiry district) were used as a reference. The results show that in Mongolian population, which preserved their traditional way of life, tempos of maturation and ageing were slowed down. In rural Khalkha-Mongols no secular changes in the age at menarche or total dimensions of men and women were found. Chuvash population, starting from the 1930’s, demonstrated acceleration of development and secular changes in main body parameters. Tempos of maturation and ageing in hand bones were much higher in Chuvash groups than in Mongolians. Practically in all studied parameters Mongolian population was similar to the longevity group of Abkhazians. Revealed differences are due to the conditions of social stability on the territories under study. Evaluation of the tempos of ontogenesis, during its whole period, based on age changes in hand bones can serve as an evidence of adaptation degree of studied groups to the complex of environmental factors.
anthropology, Khalkha-Mongols, Chuvash, somatology, roentgenoanthropology, human ecology
Цит.: Batsevich V.A. SECULAR AND AGE CHANGES OF BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS IN TWO GROUPS OF MODERN POPULATION IN DIFFERENT ECOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2016; 4/2016; с. 110-117
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