Anthropology  

The woman’s burial of Atlasovskoe-2 of the xvii century in Central Yakutia: results of a complex research

Bravina R.I., Dyakonov V.M., Petrov D.M., Solovyeva E.N., Syrovatskiy V.V. (Yakutsk, Russian Federation),

Bagashev A.N., Poshekhonova O.E., Slepchenko S.M., Razhev D.I.,  Alexeeva E.A. (Tyumen, Russian Federation),

Zubova A.V. (St. Petersburg, Russian Federation), Kuzmin  Ya.V. (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation)

This article presents a complex study of the female burial of the XVII century in Central Yakutia. The burial rite (traces of ritual roasting of the coffin, orientation to the North) and composition of the accompanying inventory (a knife of the non-Yakut origin, a sphero-conical top part of a headdress with a support for a plume, twin overlaid decorative details of the headdress’s crown, a composite pectoral panel picture of sewn-on patches, an earring in the form of a question mark with a biconical bead) determine the peculiarity of the burial, and their nearest parallels can be traced to the Medieval cultures of the Eurasian steppe and forest-steppe nomads, as well as to the population of the Siberian forest and tundra zones of the XVI–XIX centuries. Craniological characteristics of the buried woman draw her closer to the populations of Central Asian and Baikal anthropological types of the North Asian formation.

Key words: Central Yakutia, the Late Middle Ages, burial sites, the burial of Atlasovskoye-2, the Yakuts, craniometry, anthropological type, X-ray-spectral analysis, exchange of goods.

DOI: 10.20874/2071-0437-2017-36-1-044-063

20.03.2017

R.I. Bravina

Institute for Humanities Research and Indigenous Studies of the North, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Petrovskogo st., 1, 677027, Yakutsk, Russian Federation

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V.M. Dyakonov

Institute for Humanities Research and Indigenous Studies of the North, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Petrovskogo st., 1, 677027, Yakutsk, Russian Federation

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D.M. Petrov

Institute for Humanities Research and Indigenous Studies of the North, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Petrovskogo st., 1, 677027, Yakutsk, Russian Federation

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E.N. Solovyeva

Institute for Humanities Research and Indigenous Studies of the North, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Petrovskogo st., 1, 677027, Yakutsk, Russian Federation

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V.V. Syrovatskiy

Institute for Humanities Research and Indigenous Studies of the North, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Petrovskogo st., 1, 677027, Yakutsk, Russian Federation

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A.N. Bagashev

Institute of the Problems of Northern Development, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Malygina st., 86, 625003, Tyumen, Russian Federation

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O.E. Poshekhonova

Institute of the Problems of Northern Development, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Malygina st., 86, 625003, Tyumen, Russian Federation

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S.M. Slepchenko

Institute of the Problems of Northern Development, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Malygina st., 86, 625003, Tyumen, Russian Federation

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D.I. Razhev

Institute of the Problems of Northern Development, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Malygina st., 86, 625003, Tyumen, Russian Federation

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E.A. Alexeeva

Institute of the Problems of Northern Development, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Malygina st., 86, 625003, Tyumen, Russian Federation

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A.V. Zubova

Peter the Great’s Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Russian Academy of Sciences, University Emb., 3, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation

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Ya.V. Kuzmin

V.S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, prosp. Acad. Koptyug, 3, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russian Federation

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