Moscow University
Anthropology
Bulletin
Anthropology
Bulletin
Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Volgograd, Russia
Pererva Evgeni, e-mail: perervafox@mail.ru.
This paper is devoted to the study of bone material dating back to the Golden Horde from the burial mound in the neighborhoods of Staritsa village in Chernoyarsky rural area of the Astrakhan region. The Staritsa burial ground is unique in some way as it represents a projection of one period in the region’s history. The complex became operating at Yamna culture period when the first burial grounds cemeteries serving as generic crypts appeared. The present paleoanthropological research examined bones of twenty-six people: 12 female, 9 male, and 4 immature individual skeletons. Despite the fact that the studied Staritsa burial ground was chosen at random, its examination provides an opportunity to expand our understanding of the population inhabiting the Volga Delta and the Lower Volga region in the Golden Horde period. This is especially important due to the fact that our understanding of the lifestyle and physical conditions of the people of that period is mainly based on the study of mass burial grounds of the settled populations such as the Golden Horde cities of Khan-Tube, Selitrennoe and Krasnoyarskoe. The study revealed that men were the most active part of the population; it follows from the observed increased number of low temperature makers. The studied group of nomads is characterized by widespread dentition pathologies. Low frequency of caries, high occurrence of periodontal disease, tartar and intravital tooth loss are also common for nomadic groups from the barrows in the Early Iron Age burials. There is also a striking feature of the studied material. Unlike the synchronous complexes and nomadic series of the Early Iron Age, in medieval populations of the Staritsa burial ground no injuries resulting from violent actions either on the bones of the cranial vault, of the facial part, or on the bones of the postcranial skeleton were found.
paleopathology, Golden Horde, kurgan burials, traumatic injuries, cranial deformation
Цит.: Pererva Evgeni PALEOPATHOLOGIC CHARACTERISTICS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL DATA DATING FROM THE MIDDLE AGE PERIOD FROM THE BURIAL GROUND STARITSA // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2014; 3/2014; с. 38-38
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