ANATOMIC AND MORPHOMETRIC FEATURES OF SKULLS OF THE PODONTSOVYE                           POPULATION OF THE VIII–ХIV CENTURIES

Dubina Sergey Aleksandrovich, Postgraduate student, Donetsk National Medical University named after M. Gorky (16 Ilyicha avenue, Donetsk, Ukraine), serj_dubina@mail.ru
Zenin Oleg Konstantinovich, Doctor of medical sciences, professor, Donetsk National Medical University named after M. Gorky (16 Ilyicha avenue, Donetsk, Ukraine), zen.olegz@gmail.com

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Background. The article is aimed at detection of anatomic and morphometric features of skulls of the Podontsovye population in the VIII–XIV centuries by definition of their types of cranium by cranial index; cranial height-length index; cranial height-breadth index.
Materials and methods. Using the Mathmask program the authors accomplished photogrammetry of cranial height, maximal cranial length and maximal cranial breadth of 43 skulls of the Podontsovye population of the VIII–XIV centuries (with accuracy of 0,1 mm at p < 0,05) and the following indexes of skulls were calculated: cranial index; cranial height-length index; cranial height-breadth index. The researchers carried out the variability analysis of the received data.
Results. It is shown that according to the cranial index the brachiocephalic type of head is the most widespread among the samples (55,8 %), however in men's series the mesocephalic type prevails (45,5 %) and in women’s ones – the brachiocephalic type prevails (76,2 %). According to the cranial height-length index the hypsicephalic type prevails among the samples and in men's and women’s series (respectively 74,4 %; 63,6 %; 85,7 %). According to the cranial height-breadth index the most frequent type of cranium is a metriocephalic one: respectively 69,8 %; 63,6 %; 76,2 % in the samples and in men's and women’s series. It is revealed that the most frequent combinations of cranium types are as follows: meso-orthometriocephalism – 11,6 %; meso-hypsi-macrocephalism – 11,6 %; brachio-hypsimetriocephalism – 39,5 %.
Conclusions. The most widespread types of cranium among the samples are brachiocephalic, hypsicephalic, metriocephalic ones. In the population as a whole there is a shift towards the upper categories of cranium types in men's and women’s series (except categorization of types according to the cranial index). The results can be applied in comparative anatomy and anthropology.

morphometrics of skulls, population of the Podontsovye, linear sizes, indexes of skull sizes.

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