Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia 36 (4) 2008

Annotation:  Environmental Changes in the Mongolian Altai during the Holocene New Data on Radiocarbon Chronology of Neolithic Ceramics from the Volga-Kama Region 1929 Year Tree-Ring Chronology for the Altai-Sayan Region (Western Tuva) Early Urilsky Culture Assemblage from Bukinsky Kluch, Bureya River Representations of Warriors on Early Medieval Turkic Bronze Plaques from Eastern Central Asia New Categories of Wooden Artifacts of the Mid 1st Millennium AD from the site of Vis II (Vychegda Ba The Han Chariot from Noin Ula Mound 20 (Mongolia) Defense Constructions of Fort Umrevinsky (Based on 2002–2004 Archaeological Excavations) Petroglyph Sites of Kazakhstan and Western Central Asia as Part of the Archaeological Landscape: Ne Zoomorphic Images in Eastern Slavic Embroidery of Southwestern Siberia New Ethnic Holidays in the Sayan-Altai The Origin of the Early Nomadic Populations of Tuva: Craniometrical Evidence The “Mediterraneans” of Southern Siberia and Kazakhstan, Indo-European Migrations, and the Origin of Human Humerus from Khoroshevsky Island: History and Context   

The Origin of the Early Nomadic Populations of Tuva: Craniometrical Evidence

T.A. Chikisheva.

The study addresses cranial variation in several samples from Early Nomadic burial grounds in central Tuva representing early (middle and late 7th cent. BC) and late (5th–4th cent. BC) stages of the Aldy-Bel culture (Arzhan-2 and Kopto, respectively), the Uyuk-Sagly culture (6th–4th cent. BC), and the period transitional to the Hunnu age (Dogeh-Baary II, late 3rd cent. BC). Affi nities with diverse population groups can be traced throughout the Scythian period. The results suggest that the Uyuk-Sagly populations descended from those associated with the Mongun-Taiga culture. The Aldy-Bel group from Arzhan-2 was probably related to the Early Scythian population of Gorny Altai.