У статті дано інформацію про краніологічний
матеріал із розкопок могильника черняхівської
культури біля с. Велика Бугаївка та проаналізовано склад похованого тут населення.
Cemetery of Chernyakhiv culture near the Velyka Buhaivka
village was excavated in 1995—2005 by an expedition
of O. V. Petrauskas and R. G. Shishkin. During the
excavations the anthropological material was obtained.
The male series is characterized by a medium-long,
narrow, medium-high, dolichocranial cranium. The face
is short, narrow, mesognathic. Horizontal face profiling
is sharp. Orbits are medium high, the nose is medium
wide. The angle of the nasal bones is on the border of medium
and large values. The nose is of medium height.
According to the results of statistical analysis, the
group from Velyka Buhaivka is close to the series from
the cemeteries of Romashki, Kurnyky, Ranzheve. The
group is closer to the series of Welbark culture Maslomench,
Grudek, a bit closer to the Welbark mixed series
of the Lower Vistula, than to individual series of
Chernyakhiv culture from the territory of Ukraine.
The female group is characterized by a long, medium-
wide on the border with a wide, medium-high,
dolichokranny cranium.
The face is medium-wide and medium-high, orthognathic.
The orbits were medium high, the nose was medium
wide. Horizontal profiling of the face at the upper
level is on the border of sharp and moderate, its profiling
at the zygomaxillary level is sharp. The angle of the
nasal bones is medium, the epiglottis is medium high.
According to the results of the analysis, the women’s
series from Velyka Buhaivka is closest to the women
from Chernyakhiv, Zhuravka, Popivka.
From the groups of Polish Welbark culture the mixed
group of Slovinsko-Drawska is close to the women from
Velyka Buhaivka.
The dolichocranium narrow-faced type was dominant
in people buried by inhumation. It is recorded
in the people buried in the graves accompanied by the
grave goods of the phase C₂, C₂—C₃, D₁. This type is
present both in burials directed with the head to the
North, and to the West.
