Moscow University
Anthropology
Bulletin
Anthropology
Bulletin
Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Moiseyev V.G., e-mail: vmoiseyev@mail.ru; Khartanovich V.I., ORCID ID: 0000-0002-5533-0687, e-mail: vkhartan@mail.ru; Shirobokov I.G., e-mail: ivansmith@bk.ru
The aim of the study. The paper is focused on the problem of ethnic affinities of the Late Middle Age urban population of Vologda. The study is based on intra and inter-group analyses of cranial metric and nonmetric characteristics of two series of skulls obtained during the excavations of urban cemeteries namely cemetery near Sofia Cathedral and cemetery on Parkovy lane of modern Vologda. Materials and methods. The series under study consist of 24 male and 36 female skulls from Sofia Cathedral and 46 male and 32 female skulls from Parkovy cemeteries. Metric traits on intra and inter group levels were analyzed by means of principle component and canonical variate analyses correspon-dently. Non-metric traits after Anscombe transform were subjected to principle component analysis. To obtain integrated picture of population differentiation the results of analyses of metric and non-metric characteristics were graphically and statistically compared. Obtained results and conclusions. Because strong correspondence between metrics of both males and females skulls and location of graves is observed on Parkovy lane cemetery it can be suggested that structure of the cemetery reflects kinship ties of buried people. This tendency is most evident in female sample. The inter-group analyses of both metric and non-metric cranial traits reveal strong European tendency of Vologda people and at the same time they are the most distant from Volga Uralic-speaking groups. Strong anti-Uralian tendency of Vologda groups undoubtedly exclude ancient Uralian-populations who display very specific combination of cranial traits as ancestors of Vologda people. Sev-eral Uralic-speaking groups of Komi-zyrians, Kalelians and possibly Izhors demonstrate high level of similarity with Vologda people while lack of Uralic anthropological specificity as well. It can be sug-gested that all these groups have common European origin. Obviously their common ancestors spoke some paleo-European languages. Later ancestors of Komi-zyrians and Karelians because of cultural con-tacts with Uralians switched to Uralic languages while ancestors of Vologda people in the Middle Age time fall under the influence of Novgorod republic and accept Russian. Despite of different cultural his-tory all these groups preserve their ancient cranial specificity.
cranial metric and non-metric characteristics, ethnical history, Slavic, Finno-Ugric peoples
Цит.: Moiseyev V.G., Khartanovich V.I., Shirobokov I.G. Cranial characteristics of the Late Middle Agepopulation of Vologda // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2012; 3/2012; с. 95-109
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