Alexander Kozintsev
Biographic Data
| ID | 841790 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Kozintsev |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Kozintsev |
| SIGNATURE | KOZINTSEV A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0165-8109 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Uralians and Yeniseians
Для проверки соответствия новейших данных палеогеномики о генезисе уралоязычных и енисейских народов краниометрическим данным 109 современных и древних серий мужских черепов сопоставлены с помощью многомерной статистики. Результаты не противоречат выводам генетиков и отчасти их подтверждают, выявляя связь якутской неолитической серии с группой, оставившей погребения эпохи бронзы на горе Татарка в Южном Причулымье, а той — с уральскими. Кроме того…
Uralians and Yeniseians
To assess the agreement between recent paleogenomic data concerning the origin of Uralic- and Yeniseian-speaking populations and craniometric data, measurements of 109 recent and ancient male cranial samples were compared using multivariate statistics. Results do not contradict the conclusions reached by geneticists and partly support them by revealing ties between the Neolithic sample from Yakutia and the Bronze Age group from Tatarka Hill in th…
On the origin of certain Early Iron Age populations of Western Siberia. Part II . Diachronic analysis
Fourteen measurements of ten male Early Iron Age cranial samples from Western Siberia — early Bol’shaya Rechka (Zavyalovskaya), three Kamen’, three Sargat, Gorokhovo, Kashino, and Kulay — were compared with those of 28 Bronze Age samples from Western Siberia and other areas using the D2 distance measure corrected for sample size. The D2 matrix was subjected to nonmetric multidimensional scaling and cluster analysis. Results suggest that all analy…
The Structure of the Late Bronze Age Population of Western Siberia
Для выяснения истоков популяционной дифференциации населения Западной Сибири позднего бронзового века измерения 68 серий черепов этой и предшествующих эпох обработаны с помощью многомерной статистики. Результаты подтверждают вывод о минимум двух постафанасьевских миграциях в Сибирь с запада — доандроновской и андроновской. Представителями первой были чаахольцы, елунинцы и самусьцы. Каракольцы обнаруживают черты сходства и с ними, и с членами обеи…
The Origin of the Karasuk People
Проведено сопоставление 24 карасукских серий мужских черепов с 56 краниологическими сериями иных культур при помощи многомерных методов. На полученной дендрограмме в карасукский кластер входят также носители монгун-тайгинской культуры, саки, савроматы, тавры и группа из Сиалка B. На двумерной проекции этот кластер занимает промежуточное положение между андроновским и окуневским, что демонстрирует смешанный характер карасукской популяции. У предст…
Vverkh po stupeniam agentnosti
Vverkh po stupeniam agentnosti: kogda evoliutsiia stanovitsia revoliutsiei [Up the Staircase of Agency: Evolution Turned Revolution [Vverkh po stupeniam agentnosti: kogda evoliutsiia stanovitsia revoliutsiei]: A Review of The Evolution of Agency: Behavioral Organization from Lizards to Humans, by M. Tomasello
On the origin of certain Early Iron Age populations of Western Siberia. Part I. Synchronic analysis
Ten male Early Iron Age cranial samples from Western Siberia — early Bol’shaya Rechka (Zavyalovo), three Kamen’, three Sargat, Gorokhovo, Kashino, and Kulay — were compared with 62 samples of the same period from adjacent territories using the D2 distance measure corrected for sample size. The distance matrix was subjected to nonmetric multidimensional scaling and cluster analysis. A new graphic method of combining two-dimensional representation …
The Origin of the Karasuk People
Measurements of 24 male cranial samples associated with the Karasuk culture were compared with those of 56 other samples using multivariate methods. On the dendrogram, the Karasuk cluster includes the Mongun-Taiga people, Saka, Sauromatians, Tauri, and a group from Sialk B. In the two-dimensional projection, this cluster is intermediate between the Andronovo and Okunev clusters, testifying to the admixed nature of the Karasuk population. In peopl…
The Structure of the Late Bronze Age Population of Western Siberia
To assess the sources of population differentiation in Late Bronze Age Western Siberia, measurements of 68 cranial samples of this and earlier periods were processed with multivariate statistical methods. Results support the idea of at least two post-Afanasyevo migrations to Siberia from the west—pre-Andronovo and Andronovo. The former was represented by Chaa-Khol, Yelunino, and Samus people. Those associated with Karakol culture partly resemble …
Origin of the Andronovans
The origin of the Andronovo population is explored using a statistical rather than typological approach. Four questions are raised. Which Eastern European populations of the Middle Bronze and the transition to the Late Bronze Age had taken part in Andronovo origins? What was the contribution of the southern groups? What was the role of the autochthonous Siberian substratum? What was the population background of the dichotomy between two major And…
The Origin and Affinities of the Tagar People
To revise the origins and external relationships of the Tagar population (800-300 BC) nearly half a century after my book (1977), 36 male Tagar cranial samples were compared with 117 samples representing other periods and regions using multivariate statistical methods. To date, the principal contenders for the role of Tagar ancestors are the Andronovans, whose key role is supported by genetic facts. The pre-Andronovo substratum was likely represe…
The Dene-Caucasian Macrofamily
Origin of the Andronovans
Происхождение андроновского населения изучено с помощью подхода, основанного не на типологии, а на статистике. Поставлено четыре вопроса. Какие восточноевропейские популяции среднего и переходного периода к позднему бронзовому веку участвовали в сложении андроновских? Какой вклад в данный процесс внесли южные группы? Какова роль сибирского субстрата? Какова популяционная подоплека различий между главными культурными традициями — федоровской и ала…
Okunev Culture and the Dene-Caucasian Macrofamily
В статье рассматривается вопрос о языковой принадлежности окуневцев. Приводятся аргументы в пользу того, что они говорили на каком-то языке дене-кавказской макросемьи, относящемся к енисейской ветви. Об этом косвенно свидетельствуют генетические и культурные связи их предков с аборигенами Нового Света, параллели окуневскому искусству в древнем Китае и на северо-западном побережье Северной Америки, а также петроглифы окуневского типа в Северном Ка…
Whom did the karasuk people resemble
To test Yuri Rychkov’s claim that the physical type of the Karasuk people was identical to that of the highlanders of Western Pamir, 24 male Karasuk cranial samples were subjected to a multivariate comparison with 59 samples representing other cultures and periods. Karasuk people proved closest, not to those Pamiris whom Rychkov had included in his study (Goranis, Ishkashimis, Wakhanis, and Rushanis) but to those whom he had excluded because of K…
Homo sapiens - an evolutionary accident? [homo sapiens - evolyutsionnaia sluchainost’?]
Aborigines or Migrants? A New Stage in the Okunev Origin Debate
New arguments put forward by advocates of the migration theory of the Okunev origin are discussed and found unconvincing. A cultural impulse from the Late Yamnaya and Yamnaya-Catacomb populations of the northeast Caucasian steppes is quite probable; in fact, a migration is possible too, but not on a mass scale. The western pulse was single and limited in size, and its effect on Okunev origin was likewise limited. Eventually, it was overlaid by a …
Okunev Culture and the Dene-Caucasian Macrofamily
The article discusses the linguistic affi liation of the Okunev people. Arguments are cited favoring the idea that they spoke a Dene-Caucasian language belonging to the Yeniseian branch. This is indirectly evidenced by genetic and cultural ties between Okunev ancestors and Native Americans, by parallels to Okunev art in prehistoric China and on the northwestern coast of North America, and by Okunev type petroglyphs in northern Kashmir, where, in …
The Dene-Caucasian Macrofamily
Дене-кавказская макросемья: лексикостатистическая классификация и прародина А Н Н О Т А Ц И Я .Для проверки конкурирующих теорий о структуре дене-кавказской макросемьи матрица попарных лексических соответствий по кратким (50-словным) спискам между 42 живыми и реконструированными дене-кавказскими языками (баскским, бурушаски, енисейским, абхазо-адыгским, 8 нахско-дагестанскими, 27 сино-тибетскими, 3 на-дене) и 39 другими языками из базы данных The…
Patterns in the Population History of Northern Eurasia from the Mesolithic to the Early Bronze Age, Based on Craniometry and Genetics
This study examines the craniometric differentiation of Northern Eurasian groups with reference to genetic and partly linguistic facts. Measurements of 66 series of male crania from that territory, dating to various periods from the Mesolithic to the Early Bronze Age, were subjected to statistical methods especially destined for detecting spatial patterns, specifi cally gradients. Using the nonmetric multidimensional scaling of the matrix of D2 d…
Islamic Parties between Sacred and Profane
The article is devoted to the analysis of the transformation of the concept of Islamic party in the Muslim political discourse. Considering the processes of separation of Islam and politics as the formation of independent communication systems, the authors try to find an answer to the question of how, despite doctrinal restrictions, the notion “Islamic party” managed to acquire the features of a stable political concept. The authors propose a hyp…
Patterns in the Population History of Northern Eurasia from the Mesolithic to the Early Bronze Age, Based on Craniometry and Genetics
Цель исследования — рассмотреть краниометрические данные о популяционной изменчивости на территории Северной Евразии под углом зрения генетических и отчасти лингвистических фактов. Измерения 66 серий мужских черепов разных эпох (от мезолита до раннего бронзового века) с этой территории обработаны статистическими методами, специально предназначенными для изучения пространственных закономерностей, в частности градиентов. С помощью неметрического мн…
The core principle is to put heart into your work
Here is the interview with one of the most outstanding Russian physical anthropologist, the author of more than 250 scientific papers, published in the leading Russian and foreign publications, the creator of one of the areas of population studies — “ethnic cranioscopy”, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Chief Researcher of the MAE RAS Alexander G. Kozintsev, recently celebrated his 75th anniversary
On the Indonesian Component in the Population History of Japan
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Scholarship on Ritual at a Novel Level? [Nauka o rituale na novom urovne?]
Scythians of the North Pontic region
Craniometric Evidence of the Early Caucasoid Migrations to Siberia and Eastern Central Asia, With Reference to the Indo-European Problem
Measurements of 220 male Neolithic and Bronze Age cranial series from Eurasia were subjected to multivariate statistical analysis. The results support the idea that people associated with the Catacomb culture played a major role in the origin of the Afanasyev culture. Okunev people of the Minusinsk Basin, those associated with Karakol, Ust- Tartas, and Krotovo cultures, and those buried in the Andronov-type cemeteries at Cherno-ozerye and Yelovka…
The “Mediterraneans” of Southern Siberia and Kazakhstan, Indo-European Migrations, and the Origin of the Scythians
The article presents some results of a multivariate analysis of 245 male Eurasian cranial series dating to various periods from the Neolithic to the Early Iron Age. These results contradict the commonly held view that certain comparatively gracile (narrow-faced) Bronze Age populations of Southern Siberia and Kazakhstan were "Mediterranean" in the anthropological sense, i.e. Southern Caucasoid. Craniometry provides no support for the theory that t…
The Origin of the Okunev Population, Southern Siberia
Okunev cemeteries in the Minusinsk Basin were compared with 23 other pre-Andronovo series from southern Siberia, and 45 Early and Middle Bronze Age groups from Eastern Europe (24 Yamnaya and 21 Catacomb), using multivariate statistical analysis. While the Afanasyevo admixture in the Okunev population is possible, the hypothesis that the Okunev culture of the Minusinsk Basin originated from the second migration from the Eastern European steppes to…
A Neglected Form of Quasi-Aggression in Apes
Aborigines or Migrants? A New Stage in the Okunev Origin Debate
New arguments put forward by advocates of the migration theory of the Okunev origin are discussed and found unconvincing. A cultural impulse from the Late Yamnaya and Yamnaya-Catacomb populations of the northeast Caucasian steppes is quite probable; in fact, a migration is possible too, but not on a mass scale. The western pulse was single and limited in size, and its effect on Okunev origin was likewise limited. Eventually, it was overlaid by a …
The structure of affiliative relations in a primate community
The Origin of the Karasuk People
Measurements of 24 male cranial samples associated with the Karasuk culture were compared with those of 56 other samples using multivariate methods. On the dendrogram, the Karasuk cluster includes the Mongun-Taiga people, Saka, Sauromatians, Tauri, and a group from Sialk B. In the two-dimensional projection, this cluster is intermediate between the Andronovo and Okunev clusters, testifying to the admixed nature of the Karasuk population. In peopl…
Okunev Culture and the Dene-Caucasian Macrofamily
The article discusses the linguistic affi liation of the Okunev people. Arguments are cited favoring the idea that they spoke a Dene-Caucasian language belonging to the Yeniseian branch. This is indirectly evidenced by genetic and cultural ties between Okunev ancestors and Native Americans, by parallels to Okunev art in prehistoric China and on the northwestern coast of North America, and by Okunev type petroglyphs in northern Kashmir, where, in …
Patterns in the Population History of Northern Eurasia from the Mesolithic to the Early Bronze Age, Based on Craniometry and Genetics
This study examines the craniometric differentiation of Northern Eurasian groups with reference to genetic and partly linguistic facts. Measurements of 66 series of male crania from that territory, dating to various periods from the Mesolithic to the Early Bronze Age, were subjected to statistical methods especially destined for detecting spatial patterns, specifi cally gradients. Using the nonmetric multidimensional scaling of the matrix of D2 d…
Asia or Africa? Locating the Afrasian Homeland
To test the competing theories of the Afrasian homeland, the matrix of pairwise lexical matches between 58 Afrasian languages based on short (50-item) wordlists from The Tower of Babel: The Global Lexicostatistical Database, compiled by G.S. Starostin, A.S. Kassian, and M.A. Zhivlov, was subjected to several multivariate analyses.Rooted and unrooted networks were constructed, and the quasi-spatial model, which had rarely been used in lexicostatis…
Stalin Jokes and Humor Theory
The article, based on two recent collections of Stalin jokes, explores these texts from the standpoint of humor theory. The principal feature distinguishing most of them from satire is that they do not mock their ostensible target. Rather than expressing any relation to reality, they mock all the stupid ways reality can be represented. Viewed from the metalevel, these jokes are parodic in the broadest sense, which includes self-parody. They ridic…
Ainu, Japanese, their ancestors and neighbours
Seven sutural and two foraminal non-metric characters were studied in ancient and recent skulls from Japan and surrounding areas. Variation of three principal traits in most groups can be best explained by a mixture of two components, Jomon and Mongoloid, the latter one increasing in the following order: West Jomon people -East Jomon people -Hokkaido Ainu -Sakhalin Ainu -Ryukyuans -Yayoi people -Kofun people -West Japanese -Tokyo Japanese . In th…
The structure of affiliative relations in a primate community
Conflict and reconciliation in two groups of crab-eating monkeys differing in social status by birth
Gender-related factors affecting primate social behavior
The structure of grooming relations was studied in three captive groups of stumptail macaques, two heterosexual (consisting mainly of females) and one all male. Compared to the heterosexual groups, social hierarchy in the all-male group was less linear, and agonistic and peaceful activity of low-ranking individuals toward high-ranking ones was higher. In addition, in the all-male group received grooming was more variable than performed grooming a…
Gender‐related factors affecting primate social behavior
A Neglected Form of Quasi-Aggression in Apes
Collateral relatives of American Indians among the Bronze Age populations of Siberia
Nonmetric and metric traits were studied in cranial series representing prehistoric and modern populations of America and Siberia. Frequencies of the infraorbital pattern type II (longitudinal infraorbital suture overlaid by the zygomatic bone) are universally lower in Amerindians than in Siberians. The os japonicum posterior trace, too, is much less frequent in America than in Siberia. The only two Siberian groups with an almost Amerindian combi…
Collateral relatives of American Indians among the Bronze Age populations of Siberia
Nonmetric and metric traits were studied in cranial series representing prehistoric and modern populations of America and Siberia. Frequencies of the infraorbital pattern type II (longitudinal infraorbital suture overlaid by the zygomatic bone) are universally lower in Amerindians than in Siberians. The os japonicum posterior trace, too, is much less frequent in America than in Siberia. The only two Siberian groups with an almost Amerindian combi…
Aggression, friendship, and reconciliation in Russian primary schoolchildren
Aggression and reconciliation were studied in a group of 6- to 7-year-old Russian schoolchildren using the matched control approach and the two methods used in primate ethology—the postconflict period–matched control period and the time rule methods. Aggression was found to be positively correlated with friendly behavior at the dyadic level. It is demonstrated that children, like nonhuman primates, tend to reconcile within 1 min after the conflic…
Foma and Yerema; Max and Moritz; Beavis and Butt-Head
Three texts about comic duos are compared. Foma and Yerema (F&Y), characters of a 17th-century Russian folk poem, are twins. Being harmless idiots, they suffer endless failures, are regularly beaten and eventually drowned. Two other brothers, Max and Moritz (M&M), heroes of a quasi-didactic German poem for children written and illustrated by Wilhelm Busch (1865), play ruthless tricks on their neighbors. Eventually they are caught and ground in a …
Scythians of the North Pontic region
The “Mediterraneans” of Southern Siberia and Kazakhstan, Indo-European Migrations, and the Origin of the Scythians
The article presents some results of a multivariate analysis of 245 male Eurasian cranial series dating to various periods from the Neolithic to the Early Iron Age. These results contradict the commonly held view that certain comparatively gracile (narrow-faced) Bronze Age populations of Southern Siberia and Kazakhstan were "Mediterranean" in the anthropological sense, i.e. Southern Caucasoid. Craniometry provides no support for the theory that t…
Stalin Jokes and Humor Theory
The article, based on two recent collections of Stalin jokes, explores these texts from the standpoint of humor theory. The principal feature distinguishing most of them from satire is that they do not mock their ostensible target. Rather than expressing any relation to reality, they mock all the stupid ways reality can be represented. Viewed from the metalevel, these jokes are parodic in the broadest sense, which includes self-parody. They ridic…
Craniometric Evidence of the Early Caucasoid Migrations to Siberia and Eastern Central Asia, With Reference to the Indo-European Problem
Measurements of 220 male Neolithic and Bronze Age cranial series from Eurasia were subjected to multivariate statistical analysis. The results support the idea that people associated with the Catacomb culture played a major role in the origin of the Afanasyev culture. Okunev people of the Minusinsk Basin, those associated with Karakol, Ust- Tartas, and Krotovo cultures, and those buried in the Andronov-type cemeteries at Cherno-ozerye and Yelovka…
A Generalized Assessment of Cultural Changes at Stratifi ed Sites
A multivariate method for assessing cultural changes at stratified sites is proposed. Variables are technological properties of ceramics and occurrences of various categories of fl int implements. The method is applied to stratigraphic sequences of Chalcolithic fortresses in northwestern Caucasus (late 5th–early 4th millennia BC): Meshoko and Yasenova Polyana. Properties of ceramics include hardness, assessed on the Mohs scale, wall thickness, an…
Southern Adstratum in Proto-Indo-European and the Earliest Stage of Indo-European History
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Communication, semiotics, and the language Rubicon
Attempts at combining Uexküll’s ideas with those of Peirce within a single quasi-discipline called ‘biosemiotics’ are ill-founded. Peirce’s ‘interpretant’ sensu lato refers to two qualitatively different mental states, one relating to indexes and icons (INT 1) and the other to symbols (INT 2). Animal communication is dyadic – the referent is a directly induced mental state (INT 1). Glottocentric communication is triadic because the connection bet…
New lexicostatistical data on the Southern adstratum in Proto-Indo-European
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The Origin of the Okunev Population, Southern Siberia
Для проверки конкурирующих гипотез о происхождении окуневской культуры проведено многомерное статистическое сопоставление четырех мужских краниологических серий из окуневских могильников в Минусинской котловине с 23 другими сериями доандроновского времени из Южной Сибири и 45 сериями раннего и среднего бронзового века из Восточной Европы (24 ямные и 21 катакомбная). Афанасьевская примесь у окуневцев вполне вероятна, однако гипотеза о сложении оку…
The Origin of the Okunev Population, Southern Siberia
Okunev cemeteries in the Minusinsk Basin were compared with 23 other pre-Andronovo series from southern Siberia, and 45 Early and Middle Bronze Age groups from Eastern Europe (24 Yamnaya and 21 Catacomb), using multivariate statistical analysis. While the Afanasyevo admixture in the Okunev population is possible, the hypothesis that the Okunev culture of the Minusinsk Basin originated from the second migration from the Eastern European steppes to…
Islamic Parties between Sacred and Profane
The article is devoted to the analysis of the transformation of the concept of Islamic party in the Muslim political discourse. Considering the processes of separation of Islam and politics as the formation of independent communication systems, the authors try to find an answer to the question of how, despite doctrinal restrictions, the notion “Islamic party” managed to acquire the features of a stable political concept. The authors propose a hyp…
Patterns in the Population History of Northern Eurasia from the Mesolithic to the Early Bronze Age, Based on Craniometry and Genetics
Цель исследования — рассмотреть краниометрические данные о популяционной изменчивости на территории Северной Евразии под углом зрения генетических и отчасти лингвистических фактов. Измерения 66 серий мужских черепов разных эпох (от мезолита до раннего бронзового века) с этой территории обработаны статистическими методами, специально предназначенными для изучения пространственных закономерностей, в частности градиентов. С помощью неметрического мн…
The core principle is to put heart into your work
Here is the interview with one of the most outstanding Russian physical anthropologist, the author of more than 250 scientific papers, published in the leading Russian and foreign publications, the creator of one of the areas of population studies — “ethnic cranioscopy”, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Chief Researcher of the MAE RAS Alexander G. Kozintsev, recently celebrated his 75th anniversary
On the Indonesian Component in the Population History of Japan
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Scholarship on Ritual at a Novel Level? [Nauka o rituale na novom urovne?]
Geography (25 works) · Archaeology (18 works) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (17 works) · Sociology (16 works) · History (14 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (12 works) · Biology (11 works) · Forensic and Genetic Research (11 works) · Bronze Age (10 works) · Demography (10 works)