Preliminary Anthropological and Forensic Study of an Individual from Grave No 11 of Excavation CXLIX of Bolgar Settlement

Autor: Volkova Elizaveta V., Baranov Vyacheslav S., Kiryagin Konstantin V., Zholobov Albert I., Sitdikov Airat G., Rakhmatullin Nail R., Kalyanov Victor A.
Jazyk: ruština
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Поволжская археология, Vol 4, Iss 46, Pp 97-112 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2306-4099
2500-2856
DOI: 10.24852/pa2023.4.46.97.112
Popis: In this article the authors present preliminary data of the skeletal remains from the 11th burial of the CXLIX excavation in Bolgar fortified settlement. Unusual for medieval Bolgar burial rite attracted attention to this burial during the excavations in 2010. The authors provide the characteristics of the individual features of human remains according to the results of cranial- and osteoscopy, their description in accordance with the lifetime changes and postmotem preservation. In the course of research, it was found that the individual was male, age from 35 to 45 years old, the reconstructed body length was 158–163 cm in various methods. Paleopathological research and medical and forensic reconstruction revealed signs of ankylosing spondylitis and the fracture of the sub-language bone. Graphic and plastic reconstructions of the appearance by the M.M. Gerasimov’s method were performed, the non-metric traits of the skull of the studied individual were recorded.
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