Moscow University
Anthropology
Bulletin
Anthropology
Bulletin
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Anuchin Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Mokhovaya st., 11, Moscow, 125009, Russia
Perevozchikov Ilya V., e-mail: perevozchikovev@mail.ru
This article is the continuation of the work of the author and E.L. Vorontsova «On the problem of variability East Slavs craniological series (preliminary report)» [Перевозчиков, Воронцова, 2008]. In the previous work an attempt was made to resolve some of the problems from population (intra-group) positions. As it is well known, the population-based approach is characterized by a focus on the study on individual variability. In terms of mathematical analysis the factorial and discriminant analyses methods are most suitable. In other words, we have tried to go on a course of study from discrimination to the task of classification [Kendall, Stuart, 1976]. The point I was trying to find echoes of the historical process in the set, which is called the Eastern Slavs. What we got as a result of the statistical «attacks» with the wide use of indi-vidual data? 1. Distribution of the studied traits in the generalized sample of men-Slavs deviated significantly from the normal (Gaussian) mainly due to the marked positive kurtosis. 2. Correla-tion matrix and the factorial structure with some exceptions were the usual intergroop levels. 3. The tribes differed significantly from each other (except for the pair of «viatichy-krivichs»). However, these differences were unique to each sample. The reliability of differences between some pairs of samples is provided only by 2 or 3 characters and others by 6 or 8. 4. There is an impact of the number of individuals in a sample on the results of discriminant analysis, but this effect is not very large, at least it is smaller than the set of samples in each particular analysis what the consequences of these major results are. What are the consequences of these major results? Based on genetic and population-based submissions on the causes of deviations from the normal distribution in metrical charac-ters, the unimodality and some variations in the normal distribution and the reliability criterion Kolmogorov-Smirnov the over all individual conglomerate of Eastern Slavs has a marked ten-dency to morphological unity. But at a lower level (tribal) we see that the tribes retained some morphological particularities. The two most interesting result, in my view, show that the original group of tribes, which gave the beginning of medieval Eastern Slavs was not uniform because of their large size and large initial range. Socio-political and economic consolidation of Kiev Russ led to the process of biological consolidation in the middle ages of the Eastern European (Russian) plain.
anthropology, craniology, Eastern Slavs, intragroup analysis
Цит.: Perevozchikov I.V. Intra-group analysis of medieval Eastern Slavs craniology // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2013; 3/2013; с. 42-53
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