Anthropological structure of the population of the 13th-14th centuries based on the materials of the Eltsovsky-1 burial mounds

The article examines the data of a study of the craniological characteristics of the population of the Upper Ob region in the 13th-14th centuries. An analysis of the morphological characteristics of the skulls from the Eltsovsky-1 burial mounds suggests the anthropological heterogeneity of the population. This small group includes skulls with distinctly European features. These morphological features are manifested in a noticeable increase in the horizontal profiling of the facial region at the zygomaxillary level, the presence of a high and sufficiently profiled nose, as well as the maximum angles of protrusion of the nose for this group. Representatives of the continental Mongoloid race have also been noted in this anthropological series. The morphological characteristics of one of the individuals can be reliably attributed to the Central Asian race. The other hasfeatures of the Paleosiberian anthropological type. As for the morphological features of some of the buried individuals from the Eltsovsky-1 burial mounds, attempts to identify the original variants in their morphology are ified either by the poor preservation of the skulls or by the mosaic combination offeatures. The compactness of the Eltsovsky-1 burial ground, as well as the occurrence of various morphological components, allows us to assume the short-term existence of these mounds and their belonging to a small group with a clearly mixed anthropological composition. The mixed anthropological composition of this sample, as well as the occurrence of individuals with predominantly European features, suggests a southern direction of connections for this population.