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Restoring the appearance of a barbarian woman from the Southwestern Crimea. Frontovoye 3 burial ground
- Authors: Veselovskaya E.V.1,2, Dobrovolskaya M.V.3, Mastykova A.V.3, Sviridov A.N.3, Svirkina N.G.3, Bogomolov E.S.4,5
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Affiliations:
- Russian State University for the Humanities
- Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology RAS
- Institute of Archaeology RAS
- Centre for Isotopic Research, Institute of Precambrian Geology and Geochronology RAS
- A.P. Karpinsky Russian Geological Research Institute
- Issue: No 3 (2024)
- Pages: 128-139
- Section: ARTICLES
- URL: https://archivog.com/0869-6063/article/view/655755
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S0869606324030092
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/WZYDHM
- ID: 655755
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Abstract
In the Roman-era necropolis Frontovoye 3, uncovered in 2018 in the Southwestern Crimea, three burials were discovered in ground crypt 16. One of them (skeleton 1) belonged to a woman 30-39 years old. Due to the good preservation of the skull, it was chosen for craniofacial reconstruction of the buried woman. To reconstruct the appearance, the method of M.M. Gerasimov was used supplemented with new developments, namely the “Appearance Algorithm” programme. A paleoanthropological study was conducted. The complete information about the lifetime dimensional characteristics of the woman’s head was obtained, and the qualitative lifetime individual features of her appearance were determined. The final stage is the creation of a sculptural reconstruction of the woman’s appearance. The paper features a contour reconstruction illustrating the process of restoring the appearance based on the skull.
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Elizaveta V. Veselovskaya
Russian State University for the Humanities; Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology RAS
Author for correspondence.
Email: labrecon@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow; Moscow
Maria V. Dobrovolskaya
Institute of Archaeology RAS
Email: mk_pa@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow
Anna V. Mastykova
Institute of Archaeology RAS
Email: amastykova@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow
Alexey N. Sviridov
Institute of Archaeology RAS
Email: a_sviridov@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow
Natalia G. Svirkina
Institute of Archaeology RAS
Email: svirkina.natalia@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow
Evgeny S. Bogomolov
Centre for Isotopic Research, Institute of Precambrian Geology and Geochronology RAS; A.P. Karpinsky Russian Geological Research Institute
Email: e.bogomolov@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Saint-Petersburg; St. Petersburg
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