Dr. T. Tóth szerk.: Paleoanthropological studies (Anthropologia Hungarica 8/1-2. Budapest, 1968)
ANTHROPOLOGIA HUNGARICA TOME VIII. 1968 No 1-2. Section Anthropologique du Musée d'Histoire Naturelle DATA TO THE ANTHROPOLOGY OP THE BRONZE AGE POPULATION IN THE AZOV-AREA By , T. TÓTH , In the course of the intense archeological investigations conducted in the area of the Azov Sea in the last two decades, there worked the Skytha-steppe expedition of the Archeological Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences In the hasin of the river Molotshnaya in 1952. The expedition excavated, in the upper reaches of the Molotshnaya flowing through the Bolsoy-tokmak district of the county Zaporozhye, 66 graveB of 8 Kurgans, of which, according to K.P.SMIRNOV 'a (i960) identifications, 7 graves originate from the Yamnaya culture, 34 graves from the Katakombnaya culture, and 13 graves from the Srubnaya culture. In other words, the findings of all three phases of the Bronze Age are represented in the excavated material. In the last two decades, DEBETS (1948), KONDUKTOROVA (1956, 1964), and ZINYEVITSH (1967) studied the anthropological findings of the Bronze Age discovered in the Azov-area. The present author studied the Bronze Age cranial material, excavated along the upper reaches of the Molotshnaya, in the Anthropological Department of the Moscow State University In 1961.* Subsequently, also KONDUKTOROVA (1964) has examined the material, using the data of merely the mean values in her paper on the historical populations of Ukraine. 11 The present paper discusses the results of studies made on the Bronze Age anthropological findings excavated along the upper reaches of the Molotshnaya, more precisely from the localities near Hutor Shevtahenko and Zamozhnoye in the Bolsoy-tokmak district. Anatomo-morphological description Yamnaya culture (Early Bronze Age) Zamozhnoye. Kurgan 2, Grave 11 (inventory No. 420). A comparatively well preserved skull with incomplete mandible. Senile male. Skull medium long, orthocra* I wish to express my sincere thanks to Professors M.A. GREMYATSKI änd G.P. DEBETS for their permission to conduct my investigations. Por the cession of the data relating to the long-bones, I am indebted to Dr. T.S. KONDUKTOROVA .
