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Craniological peculiarities of the population of South Urals in ealy sarmatian time

Frizen S.Yu., Pestryakov A.N.

Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, RAS, Moscow

Frizen S.Yu., e-mail: frizents@gmail.com; Pestryakov A.N., e-mail: labrecon@yandex.ru

Abstract

Craniological series of the Sauromatian and early Sarmatian time from the South Urals and Western Kazakhstan have been investigated according to a standard craniological procedure and analyzed by the main components method. As a result two morphological varieties in the male series and three in the female series can be distinguished. We attempted to correlate the varieties differing in the parameters of facial bones using the generalized parameters of the brainpan. The correlation has shown that, in spite of the validity of the above-mentioned morphological varieties, the skulls belong to a single panoecumenic holarctic layer. An inter-group analysis enables one to suggest that the Sauromatian-Sarmatian population of the South Urals originated from the south shores of the Aral Sea and eventually spread to the Middle and Lower Volga and Western Siberia.

Keywords

craniological series,Sauromatian time, early Sarmatian time, Sauth Ural, Western Kazakhstan, Western Siberia

Цит.: Frizen S.Yu., Pestryakov A.N. Craniological peculiarities of the population of South Urals in ealy sarmatian time // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2010; 1/2010; с. 46-57