Origin of the Andronovans
A Statistical Approach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6037264 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexander Kozintsev (0000-0002-0165-8109, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 142-151 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Archaeology Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1563-0110 • E-ISSN: 1531-832X |
| Publisher | Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.17746/1563-0110.2023.51.4.142-151 |
| OpenAlex | W4390609085 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
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 Andronovo cultural traditions, Fedorovka and Alakul? To address these questions, measurements of 12 male Andronovo cranial samples (nine relating to Fedorovka and three to Alakul) and 85 male cranial samples from Eastern Europe, Siberia, Kazakhstan, Southwestern Central Asia, Southern Caucasus, and the Near East were subjected to canonical variate analysis, and minimum spanning trees were constructed. The results suggest that the most likely ancestors of Andronovans were Late Catacomb tribes of Northern Caucasus, people of Poltavka, Sintashta, and those associated with the Abashevo-Sintashta horizon. While no direct parallels with Southern Caucasian, Southwestern Central Asian or Near Eastern populations were found among Andronovo groups, some of them could have inherited the southern component from either the Abashevo or the Catacomb people. In the former case, one should postulate a gradient: Fatyanovo → Balanovo → Abashevo → Sintashta → Petrovka → Andronovo; in the latter case, the variation within Andronovo is directly derivable from that among the Catacomb populations. Andronovo groups displaying an autochthonous Siberian tendency demonstrate various degrees of “mutual assimilation” between immigrants and pre-Mongoloid natives. Differences between the Fedorovka and Alakul samples are significant but very small. A special role of Petrovka in the origin of Alakul is not supported by the analysis
Archaeology · Bronze Age · Central asia · China · East Asia · Ethnology · Geography · Immigration · Mongoloid · Parallels · Physical geography · Population · Sociology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Demography · History
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Origins of the Physical Appearance of the Sintashta Circle of Cultures People of the Bronze Age
The Forgotten Child of the Wider Corded Ware Family
The “Mediterraneans” of Southern Siberia and Kazakhstan, Indo-European Migrations, and the Origin of the Scythians
Craniometric Evidence of the Early Caucasoid Migrations to Siberia and Eastern Central Asia, With Reference to the Indo-European Problem
The Origins of the Andronovo (Fedorovka) Population of Southwestern Siberia, Based on a Middle Bronze Age Cranial Series From the Altai Forest-Steppe Zone
A Nonmetric Cranial Study of the Andronovo Series From the Altai
The Origin of the Okunev Population, Southern Siberia
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |