Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia 37 (3) 2009

Annotation:  Middle Paleolithic Industries of the Early Late Pleistocene (OIS 5) in the Southwestern Part of East Evidence of Environmental Instability of the Lake Baikal Area after the Last Glaciation (Based on P Radiocarbon Chronology of Neolithic and Bronze Age Cultures in Yakutia Clay Balls from Suchu Island as Neolithic Sacral Symbols Models of Metal Production in the Near East (Chalcolithic – Middle Bronze Age) Chinese Inscription on the Lacquer Cup from Noin Ula Mound 20 (Mongolia) Horse Forehead Pieces from the Kuban Region The Pakhomovskaya Culture of the Late Bronze Age Stone Stele Bearing a “Sun-Headed” Deity on the Tuim River, Khakassia (In commemoration of the Finni Methodological Issues in the Digital Mapping of Archaeological Sites The Church of the Saviour from Zashiversk: The Dendrochronological Aspect The “Harlequin”: An Ostyak Idol “Technological Eschatology” in Modern Traditions of Popular Orthodoxy and among the Old Believers o Mummery in the Calendar Rites of German Settlers in Siberia Silver of Kazakh Zergers: Traditions in Modern Jewelry Art Dental Remains from Mound 20 at Noin-Ula, Mongolia The Origin of the Medieval Population of the Novgorod Republic) (10th–13th centuries): A Craniometri   

Dental Remains from Mound 20 at Noin-Ula, Mongolia

T.A. Chikisheva, N.V. Polosmak, and P.V. Volkov.

The morphology of the preserved enamel caps of seven permanent teeth found in a Xiongnu burial at Noin Ula, Mongolia, suggests that the buried individual was a young woman. Highly diagnostic descriptive traits form a very rare combination which occurs in certain ancient and modern populations of the Caspian–Aral region and in the northern Indus–Ganges interfl uve. The Parthian woolen cloth found in the grave makes it likely that the woman was of northwestern Indian origin and was associated with the Parthian culture. The history of contacts between the Xiongnu and countries such as Parthia and China demonstrates that cultures of northwestern India and Kashmir infl uenced those of the inner regions of Central Asia. Finds from Noin Ula mound 20 support the view that certain natives of this part of the Parthian state were incorporated in the Xiongnu society at the turn of the Christian era.

Keywords: Teeth, attrition, enamel hypoplasia, southern gracile dental type, Xiongnu, Parthia, northwestern India.