Anthropological material from the cave necropolises of the mountainous Crimea

Abstract

The work is devoted to the study of anthropological material from the medieval necropolis of the mountain area, located in the caves Bin-Bash-Koba - a plateau of Chatyrdag and Syundyurlyu - Koba near Baydarskaya Valley in SW Crimea. Monuments have been known since the first quarter of XIX century. However the issue of ethno- cultural attribution population has left such a specific object is still open, the problem is compounded by their prolonged total plunder. Modern dating cemeteries within the X-XIII ct. Likely to be left isolated from the main body of the region's population groups engaged in mobile pastoralism in mountainous areas and stores surrounded Christianized population Taurica commitment to pagan beliefs. Materials museum anthropological collections assembled by researchers of the XIX century, еhey were united by the author in a small craniological series analyzed in this publication. The results of anthropological studies confirmed the specificity of the material and suggest its relationship with carriers Saltov and medieval nomadic population of the Black Sea

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