Moscow University
Anthropology
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Anthropology
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1) Institute of Ethnology and anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow; 2) Lomonosov Moscow State University, Anuchin Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Mokhovaya st., 11, Moscow, 125009, Russia
Veselovskaya Elizaveta V., Ph.D., D.Sc., assoc. prof., ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2932-9884, e-mail: veselovskaya.e.v@yandex.ru; Grigorieva O.M., e-mail: labrecon@yandex.ru; Pestryakov A.N., e-mail: labrecon@yandex.ru; Rasskazova A.V., e-mail: rasskazova.a.v@yandex.ru
The comparative analysis of the Slavic population of Eastern Europe was made. We compared this population with the medieval synchronous West Slavic groups and with close to the present population of the European part of Russia. Special attention is paid to the cranial shape. Our craniological materials, and published summaries Alekseev V.P. [Alekseev, 1960], Alekseeva T. I. [Alekseeva, 1973, Aleksie-jeva, 1966], Drozdova E. [Drozdova, 2005] were used. By the investigated grounds there was created a gallery of sculptural and graphic portraits-reconstructions on the basis of skulls. Intergroup comparative analysis was carried out on the variability of the brain part parameters and separately for some sizes of the facial skeleton. To turn the first and second millennia can be noted sufficient homogeneity of the appear-ance of the populations in the region. Western Slavs differ by less pronounced dolichocephaly, in general, slightly larger head sizes, more prominent nose and large eye slits. The Eastern Slavs more frequent had concave shape of the nasal bridge, upper eyelid fold was more developed. Received that between the Eastern Slavs and Russians, there is a significant difference in the parameters of the cerebral cranium and weaker in the facial skeleton. Epochal process of brachycephalization of the population in this area is clearly evident at the beginning of the New time. Modern Slavic population of Eastern Europe as a whole had sufficient uniformity in morphology the individual elements of the head. Many of these features are typical for Russians. The population of the New time differs sharply from the medieval one only by brachycephalia. Otherwise, there is almost complete continuity features of the appearance.
craniology, anthropological reconstruction, Slavs, synchronic and diachronic variability
Цит.: Veselovskaya E.V., Grigorieva O.M., Pestryakov A.P., Rasskazova A.V. Anthropological variability of the population of Eastern and Central Europe from the middle ages to modern times // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2015; 1/2015; с. 4-24
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