BULLETIN OF ARCHAEOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY  ¹ 8  (2008)

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Bagashev A. N., Poshekhonova O. Ye. 

On anthropological composition and genesis of mediaeval taiga population from then Middle Ob basin

Craniological series obtained from Saigatino burial grounds make it possible to undertake a description of an anthropological look regarding mediaeval population from the taiga zone of the Middle Ob basin. Anthropologically, its genesis being constituted by different elements. First of all, these are populations of the Ob-and-Irtysh type genetically connected with south Samodian genesis line. This enables us treating the whole territory of the Middle Ob basin within the limits of the south Tertiary West Siberian focus of race formation. Out of the question also, being development of physique considerably influenced by Saigatino paleopopulation which anthropological type was dominated by distinctions of the Uralic populations determining specificity of the Ob Ugrians’ anthropological look.