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Cranial nonmetric traits in the early neolithic age population of South Baikal region (Shamanka II cemetery)

Movsesian A.A. (1), Pezhemsky D.V. (2)

1) Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of biology, Department of anthropology, Leninskie Gory, 1, p.12, Moscow, 119991, Russia; 2) Lomonosov Moscow State University, Anuchin Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Mokhovaya st., 11, Moscow, 125009, Russia

Movsesian A.A., e-mail: amovsessyan@gmail.com; Pezhemsky Denis V.

Abstract

According to the data on the nonmetric traits frequencies, the cranial sample of Early Neolithic Shamanka II cemetery was studied. For the statistical analysis, we used the method of Nei’s genetic distance and multidimensional scaling. The comparison of Shamanka II cemetery population with the synchronous (Lokomotiv cemetery) and posthiatus populations of Cis-Baikal Neolithic (Serovo-Glazkovo) showed that Early Neolithic (Kitoi) populations of Shamanka II and Lokomotiv cemeteries have pronounced genetic specificity, differing from each other and from the populations of Late Neolithic and Bronze Age. This could be due to the depopulation event in the Early Neolithic period and/or with the mass migration of the Kitoi populations to the other regions. The absence of a genetic connection between the people of the Early and Late phases of the Cis-Baikal Neolithic may indicate that a new immigrant population reoccupied the Lake Baikal region in the posthiatus period.

Keywords

craniology, Cis-Baikal Neolithic, Shamanka II, nonmetric traits (discreta)

Цит.: Movsesian A.A., Pezhemsky D.V. Cranial nonmetric traits in the early neolithic age population of South Baikal region (Shamanka II cemetery) // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2013; 3/2013; с. 54-63