У статті подається краніологічний матеріал з
розкопок могильника черняхівської культури біля
с. Попівка на Поділлі та аналізується склад населення, яке було поховане на цьому могильнику.
The archaeological research of the Chernyakhiv
Culture’s cemetery near village Popivka (Lipovetsky
district, Vinnytsia region) was carried in 2017. Authors
of excavation were O. V. Petrauskas and M. O. Avramenko.
22 inhumations were examined.
Anthropological material was studied according to
the different programs in the Laboratory of the Institute
of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences
of Ukraine.
A small series of skulls can be attributed as belonging
to the European race. Female skulls of this group
are larger and more massive than male skulls. This
situation can occur when men and women in a group
have origins in different populations. Another explanations
may be that more massive men from this population
took part in military campaigns and were buried
in foreign lands.
The group of female skulls is more representative.
It allows to craniologist to get more information. Female
series is homogeneous. It belongs to North Caucasians.
It characterizes by a long, dolichocranial skull,
medium-wide (with tendencies to broad) face. Face is
sharp profile at a horizontal area. Nose is narrow and
sharp. Women may have been genetically related or
descended from populations for which dolichocrania is
typical.
Anthropological parallels of the Popivka cemetery’s
women skulls were found in the forest-steppe zone
cemeteries of the right bank of Dnieper river (Maslove,
Chernykhiv, Beluka Bugaivka). The most similarity
are between women from Popivka and Maslove. Popivka
series clearly indicates north-western direction
of anthropological links. This direction is confirmed by
statistic analysis. Women from Popivka have the most
similarity to women from cemeteries of Baltic region
2—5 cent. and in less degree to the Prszeworsk Culture
of Poland.
