Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia 39 (3) 2011

Annotation:  The Origin of Anatomically Modern Humans and their Behavior in Africa and Eurasia Newly Discovered Yarmukian and Wadi Rabah Sites in the Southern Jordan Valley and the Desert Fringe Periodization of Bronze Age Cultures in the Ob–Irtysh Forest-Steppe: The Stratigraphic Position of E Early Iron Age Burials in Southeastern Zhetysu: The Geoarchaeological Evidence Stratigraphy and Relative Chronology of the Neolithic Assemblages at the Koksharovsky Kholm Sanctua Pazyryk Burial at Khankarinsky Dol in the Northwestern Altai On the Origins of Nomadism in the Asian Steppes Medieval Sanctuary at Eshmess Cave in the Pechora Urals “Priest’s Staff” from Fort Nadym of the 16th–17th Centuries Wooden Pectoral Cross from a Burial at the Spassky Necropolis of the 18th Century in Irkutsk Latticed Petroglyphs of Mount Kalbak-Tash, Gorny Altai Food Symbolism in the Context of Komi (Zyrians) Wedding Rituals Zheltuga Republic: The Case of Social Development at the Chinese-Russian Border The Dentition of the Alakul People, with Reference to their Origin   

The Dentition of the Alakul People, with Reference to their Origin

A.V. Zubova.

Results of the analysis of nonmetric dental traits in the Alakul sample from Kazakhstan and Western Siberia indicate ethnic heterogeneity. The eastern Alakul population apparently descended mainly from Asian groups. The only European group showing the same affi nities is the Catacomb group of Kalmykia, which is dentally closest to the Alakul populations. The Alakul people of Western Kazakhstan, in addition, display ties with several European populations. These ties are evidenced by the low frequency of “eastern” dental markers and by the absence of dental reduction or gracilization. The Alakul people of the Southern Urals evidently descended mostly from the native groups of that territory.

Keywords: Dentition, Andronovo culture, Alakul culture, Fedorovka culutre, Catacomb culture.