Место издания:20th Congress of European Anthropological Association Zagreb, Croatia
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Аннотация:The presentation provides reconstruction of life style of people living during various
chronological periods of Mesolithic-Early Neolithic in the territory of the modern Vologda
region, North of European Russia (an archaeological complex of Minino). Comparison of radiocarbon
dating and palynology data shows that the population lived in the region throughout
three millennia in the conditions of lack of serious changes of a natural environment.
Comparison of data of archeology, an archeozoology and physical anthropology shows that
population of Minino is a group of hunters for whom land mammals and lake and river fish were
trade food types. According to anthropology it is possible to claim that there are no specific
features distinguishing people from Minino from synchronous groups in the north of Europe.
The group, most likely, represents separate elements of an unvarying anthropological
substratum. According to a paleopathology data, ancient inhabitants of Minino had no chronic
diseases or infections and show insignificant percent of occurrence of the markers of a
physiological stress. All of that indicates overcoming of sharp feverish conditions in the
childhood. The radiological analysis, as well as morphological, has provided the evidence of
heavy physical activities of individuals in the overcooling conditions, that emphasizes
seasonality of negative factors of the environment in daily life of hunter-gathers and fishers.
Results of archaeological researches convince that population of Minino successfully owned
various skills and processing methods during Mesolithic. It is visible on the example of
production of difficult furniture of clothes; various bone stripes, pieces of arms and tools of
hunting. Special interest is caused by dynamics of demographic parameters throughout three
millennia, change of a way of life and diet correlating with. The population reflects complexity of
process of social adaptation during so ancient periods. Work is performed within the project of
RFBR 16-06-00420.