Anthropological characteristics of medieval population from Novosibirsk Ob basin (based on the monument Sanatornyi-3)

A series of Basandayka culture representatives of burial Sanatornyi-3 was studied. According to its morphological features the group is moving closer to the population of the Upper Ob Srostki culture. There is a tendency to dolichocrania that most likely can be attributed to contacts with the population of the Kuznetsk basin, where a similar trend is observed in materials of repository Toropovo-1. According to its morphological characteristics series is heterogeneous. The most likely source components became the groups one of which was characterized by dolichocrania and wide enough profiled face, and the second - meso brahikranial skull and flattened, high face front. Only the female part of the series of the monument Sanatornyi-3 detects a sufficient similarity with the population who left mounds Basandayka and Sanatornyi-1. Men as a group are closest to the series of Srostki culture burials of the Upper Ob and the Kuznetsk Basin.