Dynamics of craniological indicators of ancient and medieval populations of the Kazakhstan in the light of the ethnogenesis of the Kazakh people

The article presents the results of study of the craniological materials on the ancient and medieval inhabitants of Kazakhstan. Craniological indicators of the series from all over Kazakhstan, belonging to different historical periods, include the most taxonomically important measurement data and calculated size indices for the skulls of adult individuals. Own, as well as comparative craniological indicators are given in the relevant tables and figures and analyzed in order to reveal their epochal dynamics in the light of the problems of the ethnogenesis of the Kazakh people. Based on the study and comparison of a number of paleoanthropological materials, the features and main directions of ethnogenetic processes over four thousand years in the territory under consideration are identified.