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A Craniometric Study of the Ancient Preceramic Population of Cuba

[Kraniometricheskaia kharakteristika drevnego naseleniia Kuby dokeramicheskoi kul’tury]

Type of publication: Research Article

Submitted: 07.06.2016

Accepted: 16.03.2017

About author(s)

Taisiya Syutkina | http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6222-4929 | syuttaya@gmail.com | Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences (32-a Leninsky Prospekt, Moscow, 119991, Russia)

Keywords

physical anthropology, craniometry, Cuba, siboneys, ciboneys

Abstract

The article analyzes craniological series of the ancient Cuban aboriginal pre-ceramic population – siboneys (ciboneys). The material is composed of measurements taken by V.V. Ginsburg in 1964, V.P. Alekseev in 1973, and new data collected by the author in 2015. The results are close to those of previous researchers, but the preliminary conclusion of V.V. Ginsburg about the possible existence of two morphological types (a narrow-faced and a wide- and low-faced ones) has been found questionable. The article also provides an overview of morphological characteristics of the local micro-series, which lets us draw up guidelines for future research.

Citation

Syutkina, T.A. 2017. Kraniometricheskaia kharakteristika drevnego naseleniia Kuby dokeramicheskoi kul’tury [A Craniometric Study of the Ancient Preceramic Population of Cuba]. Etnograficheskoe obozrenie 4: 65-82

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