Moscow University
Anthropology
Bulletin
Anthropology
Bulletin
1) Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of biology, Department of anthropology, Leninskie Gory, 1, p.12, Moscow, 119991, Russia; 2) Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology RAS, Center of Physical Anthropology, Moscow; 3) Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint-Petersburg
Borutskaya S.B., e-mail: vasbor1@yandex.ru; Vasilyev S.V., e-mail: vasbor1@yandex.ru; Khartanovich V.I., ORCID ID: 0000-0002-5533-0687, e-mail: vkhartan@mail.ru
The comparative analysis of the skeleton proportions, bone massiveness indices, paleopathology marks between ancient population of the Kola Bay (from the burial ground on the Bolshoy Olenii island, Barents sea, 3500 years ago), and Saami people (Lapps) of the 19th -20th centuries (who occupied the north of Kola Peninsula) was made. Saami people were found to be more adapted to the Far North environment according to the parameters of body length and the proportion indices of the extremities. The extremity bones of Olenii island people were more massive, than those of Saami people of Kola Peninsula. The porosis of the skull arch and facial skeleton structures, periodontitis, enamel hypoplasia, porosis of the postcranial bones, traces of contusions and periostitis of the shin bones were the typical pathologies of the skeletons of Olenii island people and Saami people. Oleniy island people had practically 100% absence of caries (only 1 case was found in the group), which confirms their dental health. Saami people of the north of Kola Peninsula showed dentoalveolar pathologies more often. One third of the individuals, buried in Bolshoy Olenii island, had the marks of rickets on their bones occurred in childhood. All diseases both of Olenii island people and Saami people were caused by the low level of insolation and insufficiency of vitamin D production in the organism, cold stress, lack of vegetable food in a diet, and hence, lack of necessary vitamins.
osteometry, adaptation, paleopathology, caries, enamel hypoplasia, cold stress
Цит.: Borutskaya S.B., Vasilyev S.V., Khartanovich V.I. The comparative analysis of the postcranial skeleton parameters and paleopathology of the ancient and close to modern population of Kola Peninsula in connection with ecological adaptation // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2011; 4/2011; с. 41-54
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