Moscow University
Anthropology
Bulletin
Anthropology
Bulletin
1) Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology RAS, Leninskiy pr., 32a, Moscow, 119991, Russia; 2) Human Population Biology Research Unit, Department of Anatomy and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel
Veselovskaya Elizaveta V., Ph.D., D.Sc., assoc. prof., ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2932-9884, e-mail: veselovskaya.e.v@yandex.ru; Pestryakov A.N., e-mail: labrecon@yandex.ru; Kobyliansky Eugene, Ph.D., e-mail: anatom14@post.tau.ac.il
The article elucidates the contribution of an outstanding Rus-sian anthropologist Tatiana Sergeevna Balueva to the develop-ment of skull-based facial reconstruction technique and other fields of anthropological science. The pioneer of the scientific approach to face reconstruction based on the underlying bone structures was a famous anthropologist Mikhail Gerasimov who founded the school of anthropological reconstruction in Moscow where in 1950 a laboratory under his guidance was organized in the Institute of Ethngraphy of USSR Academy of Sciences. Af-ter Gerasimov, the laboratory was guided by his direct student Galina Lebedinskaya who also made a significant contribution to the development of skull-based facial reconstruction tech-nique. In 1996, Tatiana Balueva, who had worked under the guidance of Lebedinskaya for a long time, succeeded her as Head of the laboratory. Dr. Balueva, who passed unexpectedly in 2012, left her mark in various fields of anthropology. She led numerous expeditions to remote areas of Siberia. The material collected there became the basis for her dissertation and numerous publications. The an-thropological analysis of the data on indigenous peoples of the North-East of Russia shed light on the complex processes of formation of the population of this region. Under her leadership, the laboratory of anthropological reconstruction developed a special program of investigation of the relationship between fa-cial features and the underlying bony framework; its implemen-tation produced a significant pool of statistical data. The years of research under Balueva’s direction resulted in the program of craniofacial correspondence that significantly clarifies the re-construction of appearance and allows receiving the lifetime skull-based anthropological description of a face so-called «physical description on a skull». During T.S. Balueva’s stay of the head of the laboratory the unique collection of sculptural portraits considerably replenished with the works made taking into account improvements of a method. T.S. Balueva authored 64 sculptural reconstructions, over 300 graphic reconstructions, and close to 200 forensic examinations on unidentified skulls. She received international recognition as an expert in craniofa-cial reconstruction and identification. The gallery of portraits (12 photos) from a Laboratory collection of anthropological re-constructions is presented in article. The list of the main sculp-tural reconstructions of T.S. Balueva is provided in the appen-dix.
anthropology, craniofacial reconstruction, soft facial tissue thickness, skull, face, appearance
Цит.: Veselovskaya E.V., Pestryakov A.N., Kobyliansky E. Tatiana Sergeevna Balueva and Russian school of anthropologi-cal reconstruction // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2013; 4/2013; с. 52-67
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