Comparative studies of age and temporal dynamics of cephalometric characteristics and anthropological photography in modern Tuvan schoolchildren during environmental changes in populations

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https://doi.org/10.25178/nit.2020.4.8

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anthropoecology; child population; cephalometric characteristics; composite portraits; Tuva; Tuvans

Abstract

The article aims to compare the age and temporal dynamics of cephalometric characteristics in the Tuvan school population in 1978 and 2018-2019. Our main objective was to assess the age and temporal variability of craniometric characteristics in Tuvan populations under contemporary conditions.

Anthropological data was collected from Tuvan children aged 6-17, according to the standard method, in one of the ethnic schools in Kyzyl (414 people) and Toora-Khem (341 Tozhu Tuvans). All those examined were also photographed according to the method of anthropological photography adopted at the Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology of Moscow State University. The generalized portrait method was applied to the photographs obtained, which simplified the visualization of the sex, age and ethno-territorial variability of the surveyed contingent.

The results obtained showed that the dynamics of changes in the size of the head and face of urban and rural children and adolescents of both genders corresponds to general biological patterns: the relatively low intensity of variability of most indicators demonstrates an increase throughout the age series (except for the cephalic index). Comparison of these data with earlier ones (1978) allows us to conclude that there are no significant intergenerational differences. This is the reason that the main characteristics of the head and face inherent in the Tuvan ethnic group have been preserved over the decades since the last survey (the longitudinal diameter of the head alone does not make an significant contribution to the transformation of the racial and ethnic appearance of the population). The retention of the classical characteristics of the Central Asian type is also confirmed by the results of generalizations of the photographs, which also indicates a significant homogeneity of the studied Tuvan groups at the present time.

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06.12.2020

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Маурер А. М., Бацевич В. А., Пермякова Е. Ю., Ясина О. В. Сравнительные исследования возрастной и временной динамики кефалометрических признаков и антропологическая фотография у современных тувинских школьников при экологических изменениях в популяциях // Новые исследования Тувы. 2020, № 4. С. 104-119. DOI: www.doi.org/10.25178/nit.2020.4.8

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Мaurer A. M., Batsevich V. A., Permiakova E. Yu. and Yasina O. V. Sravnitel'nye issledovaniia vozrastnoi i vremennoi dina­miki kefalometricheskikh priznakov i antropologicheskaia fotografiia u sovremennykh tuvinskikh shkol'nikov pri eko­lo­giches­kikh izmeneniiakh v populiatsiiakh [A comparative study of age and temporal dynamics of cephalometric characteristics and anthropological photography in modern Tuvan schoolchildren under environmental changes in po­pulations]. New Research of Tuva, 2020, no. 4, pp. 104-119. (In Russ.). DOI: www.doi.org/10.25178/nit.2020.4.8

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Andrey Markovich Maurer, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Candidate of Biology, Senior Research Fellow, Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Postal address: 11 Mokhovaya St., 125009 Moscow, Russian Federation.

Tel.: +7 (917) 383-11-11.

E-mail: foto-rer@yandex.ru

Valery Anatol’evich Batsevich, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Candidate of Biology, Leading Research Fellow, Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Postal address: 11 Mokhovaya St., 125009 Moscow, Russian Federation.

Tel.: +7 (977) 494-36-32.

E-mail: batsevich53@mail.ru

Ekaterina Yurievna Permiakova, МГУ имени М.В, Ломоносова

Candidate of Biology, Research Fellow, Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Postal address: 11 Mokhovaya St., 125009 Moscow, Russian Federation.

Tel.: +7 (906) 736-31-20.

E-mail: ekaterinapermyakova@gmail.com

Oksana Valer’evna Yasina, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Ecologist, Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Postal address: 11 Mokhovaya St., 125009 Moscow, Russian Federation.

Tel.: +7 (903) 688-16-02.

E-mail: okyasina@yandex.ru

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