Moscow University
Anthropology
Bulletin
Anthropology
Bulletin
1) Lomonosov Moscow State University, Anuchin Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Mokhovaya st., 11, Moscow, 125009, Russia; 2) Federal state budgetary institution «Research Centre for Medical Genetics», Moskvorechie st., 1, Moscow, 115522, Russia
Khomyakova Irina A., PhD., ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2811-2034; irina-khomyakova@yandex.ru; Balinova Natalia.V., PhD., ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9493-6544, balinovs@maill.ru.
This paper presents preliminary results of a comparative analysis of anthropometric data of two groups from the Altai Mountains – the Northern and Southern Altaians. The data were collected in 2017 during the expedition to the areas of compact settlement of the Southern (Altai-Kizhi) and the Northern Altaians (the Tubalar, the Chelkans, and the Kumandin). The total sample size is 259 people aged 18-60. Data collection also included questionnaire and signing of informed consent protocols. The anthropometric survey was carried out using standard methods; program included measurement of the longitudinal and transverse body dimensions, girths and skin-fat folds, head and face dimensions. A series of indices were calculated to describe body proportions and head and face shapes. The anthropological charactristics of the Northern and Southern Altaians show significant differences. In males there is intergroup variability only in sizes of the head and face: the Southern Altaians have larger longitudinal and transverse diameters of the head and the cephalic index, as well as face width and height and some other characteristics. In females, the groups are differentiated by the longitudinal diameter of the head, the cephalic index, and some face dimensions, and also by the circumferential and transverse dimensions and proportions of the body. To undertake a comparative analysis of morphological features of the Southern Altaians in the context of epochal variability, we used the data collected during the 1983 field season as part of the expedition of the Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology MSU under the leadership of T.I. Alekseeva. The secular trend in the samples of the Southern Altaians (males and females) showed up as an increase in the longitudinal dimensions of the skeleton, weight and circumferential dimensions of the body, the longitudinal diameter of the head (in males), and the decrease in the latitudinal dimensions of the face in the modern population. The established temporal variability of some morphological characteristics in the groups of the Southern Altaians is in line with current trends, which seem to be inherent in the population of Southern Siberia and Western Mongolia.
human morphology; sethnic anthropology; ethnogenesis; anthropometry; epochal variability; peoples of Southern Siberia
DOI: 10.32521/2074-8132.2017.4.028-041
Цит.: Khomyakova I.A., Balinova N.V. Anthropological research in the Altai Republic: Preliminary analysis of the morphological features of the Southern and Northern Altaians // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2017; 4/2017; с. 28-41
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