Morphological Study of the Teeth of the Meotian Culture Bearers (based on the materials of the burial grounds of the Starokorsunsky settlement No. 2, VI century BC – III century AD)
Very few anthropological scientific works are dedicated to the study of the Meotian culture bearers. So far, there has been a complete absence of data on the dental morphology of the Maeotians. The presented work is aimed at studying the morphology of the dental system of the Meotian culture bearers...
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| Language: | English |
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State institution «Tatarstan Аcademy of Sciences»
2025-04-01
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| Series: | Археология евразийских степей |
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| Online Access: | https://www.evrazstep.ru/index.php/aes/article/view/1541 |
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| Summary: | Very few anthropological scientific works are dedicated to the study of the Meotian culture bearers. So far, there has been a complete absence of data on the dental morphology of the Maeotians. The presented work is aimed at studying the morphology of the dental system of the Meotian culture bearers on the materials of the standard site – Starokorsunsky settlement No. 2. The excavations of the burials, reflected in this work, were conducted from 1980 to 2020 by the Krasnodar Archaeological Expedition of the Kuban State University under the direction of N.Y. Limberis and I.I. Marchenko. Based on a total sample of 66 individuals, two chronological groups were formed: before the I century BC and after the I century BC. This division is due to the appearance of Sarmatians at the borders of the Meotian settlement territory at the turn of the era. For statistical analysis, 28 geographically close comparative series of the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age were involved. The studied Meotian series is characterized by the predominance of dental traits of the Western odontological trunk. High frequencies of the cusp of Carabelli can be noted as a distinct trait. A comparison of the early and late series in terms of the frequencies of the main nonmetric dental traits indicates a possible mestization of the population of the settlement with the newcomers. The values of the average taxonomic distances between the Meotians and the comparable series of the Early Iron Age indicate a change in the vector of interpopulation interaction over time, which is associated with an increase in the concentration of eastern phenes in the late Meotian sample. According to the correspondence analysis, the Meotian group studied in this work occupies an intermediate position between the series of the Southern Aral Sea region, the Southern Urals and the Dnieper region. At this stage of the study, the results received may reflect interactions between representatives of the sedentary population of the Kuban region and the nomadic culture of the Scythians and Sarmatians. |
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| ISSN: | 2587-6112 2618-9488 |