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Late Medieval steppe population of the Dnestr River Region in context of the Nogai population anthropol-ogy studies (on materials from the city of Komrat)

Komarov S.G.

Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology RAS, Moscow

Komarov S.G., e-mail: snirrrr@mail.ru

Abstract

This paper presents a study of cranial series of Budzhak Nogais originating from the excavations of 1958 and 1960 on the territory of the town of Comrat in Moldova. The work is based on the materials of 18 male and 9 female skulls. The author uses already published Nogai series for clarifying the place of his material in the context of late medieval crania from the steppe zone of Eastern Europe. The group under research is a mixed Caucasian-Mongoloid. Male and female population, who left the bur-ial in Comrat is likely to have different origins. Craniological complex, typical for the series of Komrat is the closest with two Nogai series from the territory of Zaporozhye region of Ukraine. Comparison of materials from Komrat with other series reveals the anthropological heterogeneity of the population of the steppe of Eastern Europe of the late Middle Ages.

Keywords

Kraniologiya, Middle Ages, Nogais, Budzhak

Цит.: Komarov S.G. Late Medieval steppe population of the Dnestr River Region in context of the Nogai population anthropol-ogy studies (on materials from the city of Komrat) // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2013; 2/2013; с. 114-123

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