Population of the Jetyasar culture in the Eurasian space

DOI: 10.33876/2311-0546/2021-53-1/202-218

Abstract

Anthropological materials from closed burial complexes of the Jetyasar culture were studied. They date back to the time span from late antiquity to the early Middle ages (III-VIII centuries). The total craniological sample includes 284 skulls (149 male and 135 female). It was revealed that all the paleopopulations of the Jetyasar culture of the period under consideration have a fairly close morphological composition. These populations had morphological and genetic ties, on the one hand, with the local sedentary and pastoral population of Central Asia and South Kazakhstan, and on the other, with the Savromats and Sarmatians of Ustyurt and Western Kazakhstan, the late Sarmatians of the Lower Volga and Southern Urals. The approach proposed by archaeologists to consider separately closed burial complexes as the most informative for their dating is acceptable, according to our results.

For Citation: Khodzhayov T.K., G.K. Khodzhayova. 2021. Jetyasar population in Eurasia. Herald of Anthropology  (Vestnik Antropologii) 1 (53): 202–218.

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