ANTHROPOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MATERIALS FROM AN EARLY MEDIEVAL MUSLIM NECROPOLIS NEAR SIDOROVO VILLAGE
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Khazar Kaganate, Saltovo-Mayaki culture, early Bolgars, palaeodemography, palaeoanthropology, anthropological composition, Caucasoid brachycranial typeAbstract
The appendix features the results of a study of paleoanthropological materials from Sidorovsky I early Muslim necropolis. An analysis of the age and gender estimates of 126 adult and 97 children burials has allowed to draw a conclusion on a rather favorable demographic situation having developed in the population associated with the early medieval burial ground near Sidorovo village. The craniological series from Sidorovsky I necropolis consisting of 32 male and 29 female skulls was collectively classifi ed as brachycranial Caucasoid type with a minor percentage of the Mongoloid inclusion generally observed in female samples. A comparative analysis involving synchronous craniological series from the territory of South-Eastern Europe demonstrated that in morphological terms the Sidorovsky group is most closely related to series with a prevailing brachycranial mesomorphic Caucasoid component. This component, varying in terms of the proportion of the Mongoloid inclusion, was characteristic of a wide circle of populations from southeastern Europe in the early Middle Ages, including the early Bolgars.
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