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Ginsburg, V. V.: An anthropological characterization of the Sarmatians in the Volga area
COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT Ethnic groups Sarmathians Sarmathians Usuns Usuns Usuns Region? Volga. Ural Dnyeper East Kazakhstan Area of .the Seven Kivers Tien-Shan Avthors Firshtein, Debets, Konduktorova Ginsburg Ismagulov Miklashevskaya N 95-189 9-19 6-10 8-30 13-23 1. Glabello-Occipital length 8. Maximum breadth of cranium 17. Basion-bregma height 45. Blzygomatic breadth 48. Upper facial height 32. Frontal angle (nasmet.) 75/1/ Nasalspine angle 77. Nasomalar angle Zygomaxlllar angle 8:1 Cranial index 48:45 Upper facial index 54:55 Nasal index DS:DC Dacryal index SS:SC Simotical index 52:51 Orbital Index (Glabella 1-6) (Fossa can ina (mm)) 182. 2-185. 0 145. 9-147. 5 132. 5-133. 9 137. 2-138. 7 70.4- 71.9 81. 5- 82.5 30.5- 31.1 139.2-141.4 130.0-131.9 79. 2-80. 2 51. 3-51.9 47. 9-48.4 59.9-65. 8 52. 7-57.9 75. 3-76. 3 3. 39-3. 88 5. 29-5.8 183. 8 146. 3 134. 1 137. 0 70. 8 83. 5 30. 9 140.0 130.5 79. 7 51. 6 49.5 60. 0 52. 7 75.4 2.9 6. 13 176.0 147. 1 137.0 136. 9 73. 3 87. 2 25. 8 144. 3 130. 2 83. 6 53. 6 49.6 €1. 7 48. 0 76. 2 3. 1 4.9 181. 9 144. 6 138 1 139. 7 73. 2 84. 7 29. 6 143. 7 130. 7 79.9 52. 7 49. 3 57.1 46.9 77. 9 3. 1 4. 6/4. 1 178.9 146. 6 132. 6 137. 1 71. 2 84. 0 28. 5 143. 1 131.5 81. 8 52. 8 50.4 57. 4 49. 7 77. 2 3.0 4. 6 facial skeleton is medium high, relatively broad, orthognathous, of medium profile in the horizontal section, the fossa canina deeper than medium, the nose medium broad and significantly projecting, the orbita medium high. In a comparison with the crania of the population of the Srubnaya culture of the Bronze Age in the Lower Volga area, the Sarmatians are characterized by the less elongated brain case, the smaller rate of facial and nasal profiles, and the slightly higher orbita; these features indicate that they tend to some extent toward the Mongoloidé racial characters. The relatively higher vertical craniofacial index reveals the same tendency. This deviation ap pears already in the Sauromatians, to whom the Sarmatians are nearly allied with respect to their physical type. The comparison of the cranial series of Sarmatians deriving from divers regions (Ural area, Saratov, Volgograde, Astrahan, and Dnyepr area) shows extremely small variational amplitudes in the mean values (both as to absolute measurements and indices) of the respective characters. Every group of the Sarmatians represent, with reference to the mean values, an essentially uniform anthropological type, characterizable by the transitional position between the Andronovo and interfluvial types of Central Asia. The study of the individual crania revealed a wide variability of their characteristics, resulting in well distinguishable craniological types within the group which, again, manifestly reflect the ethnogenesis of the various Sarmatian groups. These types are occasionally well expressed, but more frequently appearing in less clear and more in mixed forms. The proportion of the given character is different in the various groups. Thus the basic type in the Volgograde group of the Sarmatians may be characterized by mesocrany, medium developed glabella, narrow and not high face, medium deep fossa canina, low orbita and significantly projecting nose. This type stands near to the one represented also by a part of the population along the Don, in the Kuban area, and in Northern Caucasus in the first century A.D.,
