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   

The Origin of the Medieval Population of the Novgorod Republic) (10th–13th centuries): A Craniometric Analysis

S.L. Sankina.

Important craniometrical changes occurred in the medieval population of northwestern Russia from the 10th to the 15th centuries. Most late populations resemble the Finns. In contrast, the early groups (11th–13th centuries) display affi nities with the Balts. The analysis of the geographic distribution of traits indicates that these early groups belonged to a homogeneous medieval cluster that was located on the western border of Eastern Europe and included Baltic tribes of the 1st and 2nd millennia AD, and the early 2nd millennium AD Eastern Slavs from Belorussia, Ukraine, and Moldavia. The probable factor accounting for the craniometrical resemblance between the Baltic and the early Novgorod groups is that both the Balts and the Slavs originated from the Bronze Age people associated with the Battle Axe culture and characterized by markedly Caucasoid features.

Keywords: Novgorod, Middle Ages, Slavs, Balts, craniometry, ethnic history.