Moscow University
Anthropology
Bulletin
Anthropology
Bulletin
1) Samara State Social & Pedagogical University, Gorky Street, 65/67, Samara, 443099, Russia; 2) Researcher of Center of Physical Anthropology, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology RAS, Moscow, Russia
Khokhlov Alexander, D.Sc. in History, prof., ORCID ID: 0000-0003-0442-9616, e-mail: khokhlov_aa@mail.ru; Kitov E.P., e-mail: kadet_eg@mail.ru
The aim of this paper is study of the most ancient for the present time paleoanthropological find discovered on the territory of Mangyshlak Peninsula. It is a skull of a person from Eneolithic burial of Koskuduk I. According to totality of the craniological traits, it could be attributed to the circle of South Caucasian shapes. This feature distinguishes this find from the skulls of Neolithic and Eneolithic periods discovered on the territory North and East Caucasus. Some morphological analogies for the skull could be found among the skulls of the craniological selection of Keltaminar culture from burial Tumek-Kichidzkik and of series of Khvalynsk culture of Volga and Ural regions. On the one hand, these observa-tions could add a new information about interconnections between cultures of (тут я не уверена, что правильно поняла смысл предложения на русском) Mangyshlak, the Aral Sea region, Volga and Ural regions. On the other hand, a part of the inhabitants Oukly culture which left the settlement Koskuduk I could be genetically connected with South Asia population where apparently prevailed variants of the south Caucasiod.
anthropology, craniology, archaeology, Oukly culture, craniology type, Eneolitic period, West Kazakhstan
Цит.: Khokhlov A., Kitov E.P. The skull of a person from Eneolithic burial of Koskuduk I (the territory of Mangyshlak Penin-sula) // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2015; 4/2015; с. 131-135
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